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Inga’s nose wrinkled, her expression distracted. “I smell vampire.”
“Non, there is no one here but us.”
“I smell vampire,” Inga insisted. “And…” She sniffed again, her brow furrowed. “Is that fey?”
With a sigh that came from the tippy tip of his toes, Levet closed his eyes and sucked in a deep breath. A second later he opened them to send Inga a resigned glance.
“Fey and jinn. A mongrel.” His wings drooped. “Why must stupid creatures be forever interrupting us?”
“We can finish this conversation when we’ve returned to the castle,” Inga assured him.
Levet clicked his tongue. “That is what we promise, but something always interferes. Always.”
On cue, the sky above them opened and two demons landed on the ground next to Levet. One was a tall, slender male with copper hair and the other was a blond vampire with amazing blue eyes rimmed with silver and a witch’s mark carved into the center of her forehead.
Odd.
It was even odder when the female straightened and narrowed her gaze as she caught sight of him. Almost as if she recognized him.
“At last,” she growled. “We have been searching for you.”
“Moi?” Levet took a strategic step backward. That couldn’t be a good thing. “Did the minotaurs send you?”
She frowned at the question. “Of course not. Styx sent me.”
“Oh. Really?” Levet scrunched his snout. “Why would that oversize leech care where I am?”
“I don’t think he does care,” she bluntly admitted. “But there’s a very large gargoyle perched in his garden that he wants to get rid of.”
Levet was momentarily confused. Was his mother trying to hunt him down? She’d always wanted him dead, but she’d never gone to the effort of leaving the comfort of her lair. Then he abruptly realized that there was one gargoyle who might be looking for him who didn’t desire to kill him.
“I hope it is Aunt Bertha,” he murmured, reaching up to scratch his stunted horn. “Although I do not understand why she would be in Styx’s garden. She detests leeches—”
“Save the chitchat,” the male sharply interrupted. “We need to get out of here.”
“Rude.” Levet sniffed, sending the male an annoyed glare. At any other time he might have been curious why a jinn mongrel would be helping the leeches, and how they’d gotten into the labyrinth, but right now he wasn’t in the mood to deal with the male’s pissy attitude.
“This place is about to collapse.” The jinn glanced up at the hole they’d been dumped out of before pointing a finger at Levet. “I don’t want to be here when it does. Get us out of here.”
Levet widened his eyes. It was utterly unfair that everyone expected him to save the day. He was not Superman, although he would look very fine in a pair of pantyhose and a cape.
He was just a tiny gargoyle.
“Why would you assume I can rescue you?” he demanded. “I was kidnapped and forced here against my will.Youdo something.”
The two males glared at each other, neither willing to be the one to back down. At last he heard Inga mutter something aboutballsandbrainsbeneath her breath.
“I can get us out,” the ogress announced in a loud voice.
The jinn glanced toward the towering female. “Who are you?”
“Inga. The Queen of the Merfolk,” Levet said.
The jinn released a low whistle. “That’s the Tryshu?”
“It is.” Levet puffed out his chest as he spread his arms. “Stand back and watch in astonishment.”
Chapter 21
