Marcus: #5 (Luna Lodge: Hunters of Atlas) by Madison Stevens

Author:Madison Stevens [Stevens, Madison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance
Publisher: Madison Stevens
Published: 2016-12-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

As the credits rolled, Marcus frowned at the TV. “Is there more to the movie?”

“No,” Courtney said.

“Is there a sequel?”

“No.”

“I don’t understand. When do they kill the prince?"

Courtney turned and shook her head. It had been question after question during the movie. She wasn’t surprised that he didn’t get many of the jokes. From what she knew of the hybrids, they’d been prisoners not exposed much to the outside world, but he seemed to have trouble with certain basic concepts she assumed everyone was familiar with. All of this led her to wonder how often he even watched TV.

"They don't kill the prince," she said.

His brow furrowed even more as he looked between the TV and her.

"That makes no sense," he said, shaking his head. "When he's the king, he'll just come after them. Why wouldn’t they remove the threat?”

She almost laughed, but resisted. He was putting far more thought into the movie than she ever did. It was interesting dealing with a person who didn’t take everything for granted.

“That’s not really the point,” she said. “The point is that they are together, and that’s all that matters.”

A darkness spread over his expression. “That’s not all that matters.”

She let out a sigh, watching as he stared off into the distance. It was just a funny story to her, not real. After all, she’d not had to deal with real threats to her life. She hadn’t thought how someone with his background might think about it.

“I’m sorry,” she said softly. “Of course it’s not.”

He looked over to her. Guarded emotion played behind his steely exterior. Marcus and his people had been through so much, escaping the evil Horatius Group only to encounter a new evil in the Azilians.

She knew about the terrible horrors going on in the Azilian compound. When she’d tried to help Taylor, she’d learned just what sort of people were living near her home.

His jaw tightened. “Taking away the essence of a person should mean something, and the prince deserves to pay. He deserves to pay with his life.”

Something that was a dark but whimsical scene in the movie was far too close to the actual horrors Marcus and his people had been exposed to.

Courtney nodded at the force behind his words, knowing they were meant for far more than just a movie.

Marcus leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest. He snorted. “Besides, that movie is full of lies. What they had isn’t true love.”

This time it was her turn to frown. She didn’t want to get mad over a movie, but she assumed his sheltered existence meant he just didn’t understand the themes of the movie.

“What?” she asked.

Marcus glanced over to where she sat next to him on the couch. “That movie only thinks it knows what true love is.”

Courtney huffed loudly. How could he say something like that about the perfect love story? She stood and gathered the cans to take to the trash. “And I suppose you do?”

She stomped away from him into the kitchen to the trash.

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