Note: I do not own or have anything at all to do with The Predator franchise. The only reason why I have decided to write this fanfiction is for entertainment purposes only and I will not be making any profit from it in any way, shape or form.

P.S. This fanfiction is a follow up story to Dangerous Romance: Sequel to Claimed by a Predator. The story focuses primarily on Mariah, the adopted human daughter of Marion and Cohra from Dangerous Romance, and takes place ten years after the birth of her brother, Autou.

Chapter Twenty-Five

I really hope I don't end up making things any more worse than they already are between Cahtair and Zedo with me deciding to go off with Zedo after having went riding with Cahtair for a while.

She couldn't help but feel like she was doing something that was going to come back and bite her since she was taking off with Zedo, the yautja she originally just wanted to have as her mate and boyfriend. It was a confusing thought to her since she wasn't sure why she felt this way when all she wanted was to be with him and have nothing at all to do with Cahtair. But, after having went out on a ride with him on his bike, she couldn't help but ponder on if maybe this was not a good idea what she was doing.

Her arms remained around his body from where she was behind him on his bike as he guided the two of them down various dirt roads in the area where her home was. She picked up on the sight of them eventually making their way back to her home and bringing the bike to a stop. Once it was no longer moving, Mariah eased herself up from where she had been to where her feet were on the ground. She turned and started to move in the direction of the front door of her family's home with her back facing Zedo. Her body only managed to make a few yards before the sensation of one of Zedo's hands getting a grip on one of her hands had her to stop and look back to find him looking to her with some concern on his face from the way she was acting to match the changing tone in his voice.

"Mariah, are you all right?" He asked, softly. "Is everything all right?"

"Y-Yeah." She replied, a bit hesitantly. "Everything is okay."

"You are not really sounding that reassuring to me, Mariah."

"It's just..."

"Just what?"

"I am not sure how I am supposed to feel right now from how things have been going for me today."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I have Cahtair and you pursuing me to be either one of your mates. At first, it seemed to be only one sided from how you were towards me...but..."

"Now you are feeling a little confused since it seems that Cahtair has done something to make you question what you were feeling beforehand?"

"I didn't really want to say the words like that to you, but it is the honest truth, Zedo. I feel so confused right now between the two of you and what the next six months are going to bring me from dating the two of you."

She couldn't hide from him how she was truly feeling since it was the sensation of her heart being pulled in two different directions at the same exact time and making it hard for her to make a clear decision as to who she was going to be focusing on being around more often for the next six months since she had a really good time out on her ride with Cahtair when she was expecting herself to not have as much fun as she had. While she was struggling with her current emotions, she found herself brought back to what was going on at that moment by Zedo using one of his hands to cup a side of her face, gently, directing her eyes to focus in on his piercing stare that had been fixated on her from the start of their conversation.

"I know that you are feeling unsure about the next six months that are ahead of us, Mariah," Zedo said, keeping his voice lowered to around a deep whisper, "but I am one-hundred percent sure of my feelings towards you and the fact that I am going to be leaving with you at my side on the day at the end of this trial period as my mate."

"What if it comes down to Cahtair and you fighting with each other?"

"If it does end with the two of us having to fight with the stronger one being the winner, I will do whatever I can in order to win in the match against him if the prize is to have the right to be sealed to you in a ceremony where we are mates together."

"I don't want anything bad to happen to you because of me though."

"I thought you said that you were feeling a little confused about things."

"It doesn't mean that I don't care about you and your safety, Zedo."

"It looks like to me that your feelings look pretty clear to me when it comes to who you care for."

"Don't be putting words in my mouth, Zedo."

"In that case, I have something else that you might like a little more than if you don't really want to talk right now about the subject."

Before she could issue a response, her mouth registered his crashing down against hers. Her eyes fluttered out of shock of him kissing her out of the blue like he was. She grabbed onto his shoulders while he was kissing her for support since the intensity of it had her struggling to keep mobility in her legs. It was a brief but passionate kiss that left her gasping out for air at the end. She looked to him in awe to see him smiling a little bit towards her before he headed to his bike. She stood there in complete shock after the day she had with the two yautjas pursuing her before her mind started to ponder on what was going to happen going forward from that moment. Mariah waited until Zedo pulled away from her home before she decided to head inside her home and to think on everything that happened that day, as well as to prepare for the next day at school with them.