Free 0.6-The Asylum Interviews: Trixie by Jocelynn Drake Page A

with her in the first place?
    The brief trip through the building helped to relieve me of the worst of the chill biting at my bones. My cheeks and ears stung from exposure to the cold wind, but I hardly noticed. I hadn’t expected my trip to the gargoyles to be completely useless in regards to my problem and I hadn’t thought up a back-up plan. My only other option was to try to call out Chester and hope he didn’t kill me in the middle of the street.
    I pushed through the revolving door and sucked in a breath when the cold wind slapped me in the face yet again. Warmed up just so I could freeze on the walk to my car. Wrapping my arms across my chest, I quickly turned down a well-lit alley in hopes of getting to the parking garage a little faster. Not much chance there, as a pair of strong hands grabbed my upper arms from behind and lifted me from the ground. I twisted, seeing the ground grow farther away as I rose in the air with my captor.
    “Hold still,” grumbled Evrain.
    I looked up to find the gargoyle’s wings spread wide, catching the fierce wind so that it carried us higher and higher into the night sky. His talons bit into my arms through the jacket I was wearing, but I didn’t say anything. I could tolerate a little pain over the prospect of being dropped several stories to the unyielding concrete.
    To my surprise, we didn’t return to the top of the Lindner Tower, but instead stopped on the rooftop of another building about a block away. Luckily, it was actually closer to the garage where I had parked my SUV.
    “What’s up?” I asked when Evrain set me down and landed beside me.
    “The location of the nest is—”
    “Whoa!” I interrupted, holding both of my hands up. “I appreciate your help, but you can’t do that.”
    “I would have given anything to be able to stop the murder of Mordrain and Lysanor, but there was nothing we could do,” he said with a low growl as he looked at the ground. He jerked his head up to face me and there was a glow to his yellow eyes. “We can do something to help your friend.”
    “What about Uther? I understand his reasons. I don’t want to get you in trouble with him.”
    “Uther will be angry, but not that angry. He wants to help, but feels he cannot. Astolat will soften his anger. She’s the one that sent me.” I smiled at my companion. “The nest you asked about is on the west side of the city in the Parkside neighborhood.”
    “I know it.”
    “It’s a white three-story house that sits back at the end of a long gravel driveway and is surrounded by a high fence. The house will look broken down and uninhabited when you approach. The vampires do not come up the driveway from the street, but there is an entrance through the detached garage that sits back in a thin strip of woods.”
    “Got it. Thanks.”
    Evrain clasped me on the shoulder and pressed his forehead against mine. “Be careful and save your Jo.” The gargoyle suddenly released me and ran to the edge of the rooftop. With a leap, he was airborne, circling a few times as the wind lifted him higher, bringing him closer to the rooftop of the Lindner Tower.
    As I headed to the door of the stairwell, I pulled my cell phone out of my back pocket and dialed Trixie’s number. I had the start of a plan and a location. Trixie needed to be updated on the progress that I had made, and I wanted to get her thoughts on my insane plan. To be honest, I was hoping she would talk me out of it and think of something slightly less suicidal.
    I paused on the second landing as I descended the stairs and looked at the screen on my phone. My call had gone into voicemail for the second time, sending a chill through my blood. The elf was frantic to help Jo and torn up over the fact that her friend was going to be injured because of her recklessness. Trixie should have been waiting by the phone for my call, ready to pounce on any opportunity to jump back in the fray. Slowly continuing down the stairs, I dialed the