Page 65 of Stone Seduction
I stormed into my boss’s office.
Empty.
“Shit!” I bellowed, pulling out my flip phone.
She didn’t answer, the call going to voicemail. I slammed the device shut, too rattled to leave her a message. What good would it do anyway? I’d still have to wait for her to get back to me.
“Luke!”
Nothing.
What was the point of marking the human if I couldn’t pissing find him?
Eden arrived in the corridor with her team as I charged out of the office.
“What is it?” she asked, her voice a life raft in the choppy seas of life.
I broke, slamming my fists into the wall in a fit of rage. I roared it out, punched it out, making a significant hole by the time I calmed down.
“Fuck…” I sank to my knees, totally lost.
“Cookie…” Eden’s hand landed on my shoulder, squeezing gently.
“I’ve…I’ve lost him…” I breathed, languishing in defeat.
I’d failed Luke so many times, the most useless gargoyle knight to ever walk the universe.
Why me? Why not pick a better gargoyle over this useless lump of shit?
“Is it Luke?” she asked.
I pressed my forehead to the wall. “Yeah. He’s… Something’s wrong and I can’t find him.”
“He’s not in the tower?”
“He’s out with Seth.Training.” I growled the last word. “What a piss take.” I lifted my head. “The amulet’s down, I’m getting warnings, but…” A glimmer in the darkness, a signal breaking through. “Wait. He’s moving.”
“Where?”
I jumped to my feet, ignoring the pain in my knuckles. I saw him as a speck of light far away. Not here in town.
Where are you?
There. A lock on his location.
“I have to go.” I ran back into the office, crashed through the windows, and swan dove off the balcony.
“I’m coming, Luke.”
EIGHTEEN
Luke
These mountains were fifty miles west of Brinecrest, known as Silent Heights. Created ten years ago by a massive earthquake that swallowed five villages, the mountains skipped millions of years of creation, practically appearing overnight. With the help of magic, of course.
I wasn’t sure where they got the name from, but they were nice and isolated. A perfect location for building a secret chrome facility.
“Until it all goes sideways,” I said, laughing.
