Twilight Marcus の小説・ストーリー

His hands are pressed against his stomach, dark blood leaking through his fingers and staining the snow that has drifted in through a ventilation shaft above. "It’s not dead," Marcus whispers, his teeth stained pink. He looks up at me, his eyes wide and completely vacant. The purple tracks on his arms are darker now, almost black under the skin. "The transition... it’s beautiful, Nora. I can see the cabin. I can see the ice. I can see the day I met your father." He smiles, but there is no life behind it. His pupils are dilating, swallowing the gray of his eyes until they look like two holes in a sheet of white paper.

I struggled to push through the haze, to summon the strength I needed, but my limbs felt like lead, and the world around me spun. A figure stepped into the grove, tall and menacing, his presence like a storm cloud casting a dark shadow over the moonlit clearing. Marcus. I had feared it was him. The ruthless werewolf who had terrorized our lands for years, who sought to tear down everything the guardians protected. His dark eyes gleamed as he stepped closer, and I saw the cruel smirk twist across his face as he knelt in front of me. “Well, well, look at you,” Marcus’s voice dripped with mockery. “The mighty guardian, brought low by a bit of incense. How the tables have turned.”

Tara’s slap landed with a sharp, crisp *smack*, echoing through the room. For a brief moment, Wesley’s expression changed, but he quickly twisted it into a deranged smile. “Feisty, huh? I like that.” Tara raised her right hand to strike him again, but he caught her wrist. She lifted her left hand, but he grabbed that one too. Wesley’s eyes glinted with menace. “This little bit of fight in you? It just makes it more exciting. Once the stuff fully kicks in, you’ll be begging me for more!”

Marcus placed a kiss on her cheeks and she smiled. "Alright darling, I'll be waiting for you" she tiptoed kissing his forehead earning a scoff from him. "Don't eat or drink anything" he helped her sit while she nodded. "I'll leave" Marcus whispered and immediately, he turned around. He stylishly wiped his lips as he headed to the suite where the business men were. They have to talk about business.

I knew I needed to kill him manually. He looked behind me, and fear dawned in his eyes. That was his moment of weakness. I seized the opportunity and stabbed him with my claws. "You shouldn't have freed her, Gwen, " he said through the mind link with blood dripping out from Adrian's mouth. "All this was for you. So you will be safe, so our territories will survive them.." he paused. Falling to the ground, he said " Marcus is the Baron, and Sylvia and Lucas were working for him," I was about to twist my hand, tired of his lies, when I heard Sylvia laughing at me.

"The grim wide cloud of darkens are also destined to disperse apart giving way to light; the light of truth, the hope of better days." "You already knew that I am Twinkle, you still kept quiet. You remained quiet even after knowing whatever wrong Mariah has done, you didn't say a word to her! Why! Why are you still silent?" I asked while sitting on the top of him, and pillow in my hand still hanging in air, aiming to thrash his face.

CHAPTER 2: The Enemy's Price "You're late." I step out of the car. Marcus is asleep in the backseat. I grabbed him from school so fast I didn't even put on his shoes. Mid-nap. Still in his uniform. His small hand clutches that stuffed wolf he loves. I grabbed it from his bed without thinking. The only thing he asked for when I pulled him out of class. A man walks toward me. Tall. Broad. Scar through his eyebrow. White and jagged, like lightning cut his face. He moves like he expects the ground to move for him, like the world should step aside.

Valen leaned in and took my hand, lifting it slowly before brushing a soft kiss against my knuckles. “No one in this room is as stunning as you,” he murmured. I rolled my eyes, even as a small smile pulled at my lips. “You need to stop reading my thoughts.” His grin turned downright boyish, which felt wholly unfair. How could someone look like a blade in motion one moment and a lovestruck rogue the next? “Lord of the Twilight Court,” Aurocen’s voice rang smooth and warm, pulling us both back to the moment. Valen and I turned just as he and Luna reached us, their joined hands a quiet show of unity. “It is an honor to have you at our ball.”

Of Marcus's face, split between man and monster, wearing a crown of corrupted stars. And beneath it all, a heartbeat not my own. Tiny. Impossible. Divine. Three days old. Three times blessed. And already hunted by every dark thing that crawled between the worlds. When I woke, Dimitri's arms were around me, his wound already healing but scarred with shadow. Through our bond, I felt his fury, his fear, his desperate love. But also something else. Something foreign. Something that whispered with Marcus's voice: *Every time he bleeds, I'm there.*

I said icily, despite knowing Marcus did not see Seren in that way. None of us ever had. Marcus had met his fated mate within a year of coming of age, and then soon after the pair became Alpha and Luna. After that Marcus had never looked at another woman in that way again. He was well and truly dedicated to his fated mate. So I knew that Amalie had nothing to worry about, but in this moment, I was being nothing but spiteful. My friend's protectiveness over Seren seeming unneccesary and truly irritating...