Interlude(Marcus)

Yup, the newest installment of my incomprehensible story. In which Marcus reflects on some...things in his study. And getting nowhere. You don't have to comment if you are not reading this, which means I will get no comments at all. As always.



Did he love her?




Marcus frowned and stopped studying the map on his table.




Surely love was too strong a word. He had never been one for sentiments, and purposely avoided any feelings too extreme or overwhelming. Feelings were nothing but a distraction, and most often than not, they made business turn ...messy.





To be honest, he did care for the existence of the teenaged ghost. He would feel a sense of lost if Charlotte were to disappear one day.




How exactly?





Not as if she could die, although sometimes he wished the opposite. Also, Sarah and Charlotte would never leave him if they wanted Daniel to remain alive.It was an unwritten agreement between them.





He often congratulated himself of having Daniel as such useful leverage.





Yes, he would be quite distressed if Charlotte suddenly stopped working for him. It would be quite disastrous for his flourishing enterprise too. She was the perfect assassin, spy, enforcer and bodyguard. Therefore, the grief of losing her would be more like mourning for his lost of profits.





It was always about profits and gains.





Then, as he remembered the incident that occurred just now, he scowled.(no one was watching anyway)

Charlotte was occasionally amusing, but the fact remained that she was insolent, childish and generally unbearable.

Sometimes her sense of humour was a little too macabre, even for him.

Was she intelligent?

Yes, but her intelligence was mostly wasted on irritating him and making a nuisance out of herself.

She just had to use every opportunity to remind him that he killed her.

Tiring, to tell the truth. Was it his fault that Charlotte happened to be intoxicated, suicidal and just a little too trigger happy in face of pressure?

No logic in her accusation at all.

As much as he cared for her existence(and the cooperation between them), he would not hesitate to kill her if required.

Like how he killed his wife,mistress and everyone who tried to double-cross him.

Of course, this statement was only meant to point out where he stands. The actual process of killing a ghost he had yet to figure out.

Marcus started to drum his fingers against the mahogany desk. The blueprint of a rival drug dealer's apartment lay forgotten at one side. He frowned again as another thought occurred to him.

Not too disturbing, the thought. Only a fact he had always known. Just not viewed this way.

He loved Monika, did he not? And he had loved Christopher.(he was good at blocking another son's name from his mind) Or at least cared for them with as much affections that he was capable of.

Yet, he would kill them himself if they ever threatened him.

Well, it was necessary. Logic came before all sentiments and feelings.

So if he would have no qualms about killing those he loved, this brought him back to...

Did he love her?