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Chapter Forty-Eight

As the sun was shining down over the expanse area of the rain forest, Cohra moved with Marion down one of its many paths, showing her the large area that he ruled over and made sure to patrol in order to keep those he didn't want there out and prevent people who came with the intent to take him out, as well as provided him a challenge, from leaving the area alive. He kept a grip on one of her hands, making sure that nothing was to happen to her during their walk. There were dangers that were both seen by the human eye and those only seen by his sharpened gaze that he didn't wish for her to encounter for as long as they lived there in that area with one another.

Although the dangers on Earth were grand in size and volume, they didn't compare to those that he faced on the home planet that his kind had went to once they had ran out of challengers on Marion's planet and they were facing a growing number of humans who were wanting to wipe them off of the planet. A few clans, including his own, chose to remain on Earth for the time being while the others had loaded a large mother ship to travel out and find another place to call their home until they found an area that was safe for them to dwell in and not have to worry about flying to another world to call their own. There were dangers in every corner of the galaxy and he would do his best to keep her safe from the worst of the worst.

He traveled several miles with her into the jungle when he started to pick up on her feeling a little tired from her breathing getting heavier and her pace starting to slow down some. Looking to where she was, he found Marion to becoming exhausted from the amount of walking they had done into the rain forest and that she needed to rest her feet. He didn't wish for them to stop on their travels though from where he was nestled with her as he wanted her to see the area that he was given as his to govern over. His body shifted to where he was knelt down on one knee with his back facing her and he made the motion for her to climb onto his upper back so she could rest for walking for long periods of time on her feet. His move was met initially by her not being sure if her weight would give him more of a burden than he needed to on their walk. She didn't voice it, but he could tell that was on her mind. Looking at her, he spoke to her in a reassuring tone that vibrated through his mandibles underneath his mask.

"Don't worry, Marion." He said. "I'll be all right to carry you on my back. That buck I carried earlier over one shoulder weighed quite a lot but I still managed to get back to our camp with it on one of my shoulders while using just one hand to keep it from sliding off of me. You'll be all right."

Cohra could still see some hesitation lingering in her eyes at the idea of getting onto his back despite her moving to climb onto him. He waited for her to move herself onto his back and slip her arms around the front of him to where they had her hands resting on his shoulders. As she was holding onto him up top, his arms got a hold of her legs and held onto them as he moved himself to stand upright with little difficulty on his part with supporting her weight. He found her to be lighter than what the buck had weighed and it wouldn't be much trouble at all for him to keep her like she was atop him. His body started to move on down the path they were on while he could hear the sound of concern in her voice to him.

"Are you sure about this, Cohra?" She asked. "I don't want you to hurt yourself with carrying-"

"I will be all right, Marion. There is nothing for you to worry about."

"I just don't want you to overdo it on our walk before we get back to where we live at."

"Trust me when I say that you weigh much lighter than that buck I had brought back to our camp did, Marion. You are light as a feather in comparison to what he did, and he was over one of my shoulders."

He noticed his words giving her some form of relief in knowing that she wasn't going to hurt him despite still being unsure as to if this was a good move on his part. Cohra moved on down the path at a steady pace as he found her to be easing her head lean her chin atop one of his shoulders after awhile, allowing herself to relax now that she wasn't having to walk on her feet in the manner that she had been doing. Feeling her body not being so tense, he started to pick the pace up a little bit more while maintaining the conversation with her.

"So, as you can see, Marion, I do have a lot of land that I patrol and make sure that no one comes in here that I don't allow to but it is not the whole expanse of the jungle itself. This is just a portion of what is nestled within it that I own while my brothers have the rest of it."

"Do each of your brothers operate their own sections different from one another?"

"In a sense we have our own ways of dealing with things within our areas and not one of my brothers is just like me."

"That is good to know."

"Why do you say that?"

"I would hate to see you being like Ragar and how he likes things done if he had a hissy fit over you choosing a human female as your mate and that you had sex with me a couple of times before meeting me."

He went to respond with words when he let out a hearty laugh at what she had said to him. The idea of him being like his short-fused brother Ragar made him laugh. He could never see himself to behave in the irrational manner that he does, and the image of him throwing tantrums like his younger sibling had him only able to laugh in response to what she had said.

Cohra kept their walk going for a little while longer until they arrived back to the waterfall that hid the passageway to the home that he shared with Marion. He carried her down the small tunnel and out to the other side where the ship was when the sound of a gun going off in the jungle caught his attention and alerted him to the fact that there was someone in the area that possessed a weapon that wasn't one that his brother's carried. The sound alarmed his mate as he could feel her tense up on his back. Guiding her body off of his back, he turned to her and spoke to her in a deadly serious tone that was not to be questioned.

"I am going to find out who just shot that gun off, Marion. I want you to go inside the ship and have the door and all the windows to seal tightly until I get back here."

He wasn't going to argue about this with her. This was something that she was going to have to do this time and not back talk him. Someone was in an area of the jungle close to where they lived with a weapon in their position that could do harm to either one of them , and they needed to be dealt with.

His eyes watched her give a nod of her head to him although her eyes looked to him with fear in them. He watched her turn and rushed inside the open doorway of their home, having the doors and windows close tightly behind her. With his mate safely inside of their home, he turned in the direction he had just come from and went racing back towards the jungle with his cloaking shield coming on over him to keep him hidden from the sights of the individual who had entered his jungle with an intent to harm.