Vampire Mage 5: An Urban Fantasy Harem (The Vampire Mage) by Joshua King

Author:Joshua King [King, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-05-02T16:00:00+00:00

13

"Where are we?" I asked.

I got my feet under me and took a few steps forward, looking around at the rocks and scrubby plants that surrounded us. The air around us whipped up in sudden gusts of wind that felt colder than the air when we walked into the inn.

"The mountains," Lilly said. "This is where the portal brought me when I went through it. I didn't go much farther than this, but I didn't need to. I know these mountains."

"Why would the portal bring us here?" I asked.

She shook her head.

"No one knows why the portals go where they do," Aurora said. "They've been around longer than anyone can remember and no one knows where most of them came from or why. The inn was built around the portal, but Matthias never told me why. I suppose telling me why they had done that would just mean having to tell me where the portal led, and he didn't want to do that."

“I guess it doesn’t matter. This is where Malakan wants us to be. Everybody look around for a note or something he might have left.”

“A note?” Lilly asked.

“The portals we’ve gone through have had a note,” I told her. “It has the next step he wants us to follow.”

“Don’t you wonder why he didn’t just tell you where to go?”

I straightened from the rock I was leaning over to look behind and glared at her.

“Of course I’ve wondered that. Do you think I’ve just been wandering around aimlessly, blindly following these instructions because I don’t have anything better to do?”

“It just seems strange,” Lilly said.

She had taken a step back from me and I felt bad for snapping at her.

“I’m sorry. This whole thing has just been really frustrating. It will seem like I’ve figured something out or like we’re on the right path, then something happens and we have no idea what the fuck we’re supposed to be doing next. I want to believe that Malakan knows what he’s doing and that there’s a point to all this.”

“There is,” Brielle tried to reassure me.

“Then what is it? Darian is missing, which means he could be literally anywhere, doing anything. Instead of doing what needs to be done to stop him, I’m traipsing around playing hide-and-seek with a warlock.”

“You trust him, don’t you?” Aurora asked. “You’re the one from the very beginning who said you knew he was doing something with all this. As soon as that fire happened, you knew there was more to it.”

“And I still believe that. I know he can’t just give me a map of where he is. That would kind of defeat the purpose of trying to make people think he was dead. But what’s the point of him dragging us up here? There’s no note. No sign of him anywhere. We’re up on the top of a fucking mountain and I don’t even see anything else that’s alive, unless you want to count the weird plants stuck to the rocks. Somehow, I don’t think he’s hiding in them.

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