Body Count: A Dark MM Romance (Wayward Sons Book 1) by L Eveland

Author:L Eveland [Eveland, L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grim Cat Press LLC
Published: 2023-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

I stuffed myself full of gnocchi and Italian sausage while River was gone. Xavier put on a musical about a man-eating plant. The movie was confusing and strange, but the songs were catchy.

“So when are you going to become a dentist?” Xander teased, throwing popcorn at his brother.

“When you open a floral shop,” Xavier replied and pitched a candy at him from across the room.

“Fuck you. I am way too hot for retail,” Xander replied, sitting forward on the sofa. “What time is it?”

Xavier tapped a button on his cell. “Just after midnight. Hey! I was watching that!”

Xander smirked at me. “Want to see a real scary movie?” He wiggled his eyebrows.

I sat up from where I was curled on the other end of the sofa, clutching the pillow tighter. “What kind of scary movie?”

“Xander, don’t,” Xavier warned. “River said stick with kid-safe stuff. He’ll be pissed if you show him anything actually scary.”

I flushed hot, anger and hurt flaring in my chest. River thought I couldn’t handle anything scary? After everything I’d seen and been through? Just because I couldn’t function on my own didn’t mean I should be treated like a child.

I squared my jaw and looked straight at Xander. “Show me the scariest movie you know of.”

“Are you sure?” His voice dipped an octave, and it was enough to send a small shiver down my spine.

I nodded stiffly. “I can handle it.”

“Xander, don’t,” Xavier warned again.

“Too late,” Xander said, selecting a shadowy image of a man standing outside a house.

“When River finds out, it’s your funeral,” Xavier mumbled.

I clutched the pillow tighter as the opening credits started to play. At first, I didn’t think much of the movie. It had a lot of characters at the start that were difficult to keep track of, and there wasn’t any singing. I started to drift off to sleep until Xander moved over to elbow me awake just as the little girl, who was the main character, started screaming and being thrown around on the bed by an unseen force.

As the movie went on, I started to feel more and more on edge, gripping the couch pillow so tight that my knuckles ached, yet I couldn’t force myself to let go of it. I knew the movie was fake and that demons weren’t real, but I still couldn’t shake that feeling of dread hanging over my head. Such terrible things were happening to that little girl, and there was nothing anyone could do to help her. It wasn’t the violence, or the horrible things the demon said that terrified me, but the poor girl’s helplessness. It felt too familiar. Even worse, the ending did nothing to soothe those feelings. In the end, the demon won, claiming the lives of two good men.

Xander stood as the credits started to play and I flinched. “Well?” he said, stretching. “What’d you think?”

Xavier frowned and leaned forward to look at me. “Bro, are you okay? You look like you’re about to have a coronary.”

“I’m fine,” I snapped and glared at Xavier.

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