Chapter 36 : In the Moon Sleep

*Arealla*

Marcus and I lay on the bed, still joined as one, long after we had spent ourselves with each other.

I wanted nothing more than to just stay with Marcus like that forever. But it wasn't possible. We weren't safe. We still had to wake; we still had to escape Jason and whatever he was planning. Even though Jason had me locked in a cell, it was the both of us that he held captive.

But Marcus didn't know everything yet, and I supposed that the time had arrived for me to tell him what had happened to me.

"It was Jason," I told Marcus. "He took me."

My voice was soft as I spoke, and it surprised me a little. I had thought that I would be louder and clearer than this.

But I also understood where my reticence was coming from. Where my fear was coming from.

It wasn't just that Jason had me in a cave locked up somewhere. It was also that he had tricked me. That I had trusted him, and I had trusted him more than once. But each time he had shown me who he really was, and I