“You can ask him when we go to kick his ass later.”
“Will do,” he chirped.
“Let’s go.I’m ready to get all my people back, one way or another.”At this point, he wasn’t above using a flaming orb if necessary.Too many people had spent the past few days angering him.
“While you were inside, I called Grevin.He’ll meet us by the forest,” Glenn offered.
He almost objected, but the reassurance of having a powerful necromancer at his back with his magic levels low couldn’t be underappreciated.“Thanks, Glenn.”
His friend let out a relieved sigh.“I wasn’t sure if you would be upset with me.”
“Grevin is still injured, but if we keep him out of immediate danger, he should be fine.Do you think we should alert any other vampires?”
“We should have Jaks contact them when we get him back,” Allea interjected.“They are more likely to come then.”
“Good point.”The clan didn’t really know Quentin well yet, and his mother was new, too.Many of them probably wouldn’t believe that Braed would betray them, or if they supported Braed, they might have already defected.“I wish I knew why Braed betrayed Jaks.”
“Vlad,” Glenn said.“He was closer than anyone knew.He’d promised to make Braed his consort.When you took out Vlad and then took the consort position he was promised, it was one too many things.”
“How do you know that?”Andrea asked the question Quentin had been wondering.
“Being a young vampire, I don’t have a lot of presence.Other vampires talk as if I’m not here.”
“Why didn’t you say anything?”Quentin asked.
Glenn shrugged.“Your mother seemed happy with him, and I never saw him doing anything wrong.It’s one of the reasons I agreed to be your chauffeur, not that it did any good in the end.I swear, Q, if I had thought he would kidnap Trina, I would’ve stabbed him myself.”
It was hard to stay angry with so much remorse showing in Glenn’s eyes.
Quentin sighed.“Fine, I won’t stay angry, but if you ever hear something that would affect me and mine, please tell someone.Preferably me or Jaks.”
“I will,” Glenn nodded so hard it made Quentin’s neck ache.“Promise.”
Glenn led the way to a limousine painted a shiny black with gold scrolling along the sides.It screamed of great wealth and bad intentions.
Perfect.Intimidation by car was his new favorite tactic.As he got back in the limo, he had to admit, Nikko hadn’t seemed like a crazy psycho, but why else would he kidnap Quentin’s mother or change Glenn without support?It took him a minute to realize what he was missing.Motivation.Nikko’s presence had a bad feeling to it, like he was emitting evil, which was weird since he didn’t come across that way.
Still, he did have Trina Heart kidnapped, and that was evil enough.
It took almost an hour to get to the hotel.Quentin had never missed his teleporting more than he did now.He still didn’t trust the twins enough to tell them about his weakness.
Glenn pulled up in front of a fancy hotel, altogether the sort of place Quentin expected a vampire council to stay.The gothic architecture alone screamed, ‘vampire’.
“Nice,” he said, admiring the gargoyles.
“Luckily, it’s still mostly daylight,” Glenn said, eyeing them uneasily.
“What do you mean?”He saw nothing wrong with the statues.They were rather detailed, but not overly gruesome.Maybe they looked scarier at night.
“Don’t you ever read your creature books?”Glenn scowled at him disapprovingly as if he were channeling Quentin’s mother.
“I do…”
“Then you should know that gargoyles are only stone during the day.At night, they come alive.”
“Oh… oh, right.I do remember reading something about that.They can be vicious fighters, but they are primarily guardians of buildings.”
“Remember the vicious fighter part,” Glenn warned.
