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Chapter Four

Day gave away into early evening by the time that Cohra and Marion had finished making love with one another in their bed at their home and were resting beside one another in the large bed. He looked over to where she was nestled as his eyes started to open up to find her there, sleeping away and looking to be more at peace than she had been earlier on that day when it was brought to her attention what the plan for her kind was to be at the hand of his people. It bothered him greatly to find her highly stressed over it and he was very focused on getting rid of those emotions from her and replace them with much more desirable ones.

Gazing upon the woman that was his mate, he used one of his hands to brush strands of her hair away from her face so he could gaze upon her from where he was nestled at her side. The sight of Marion sleeping away without a care in the world with the fading sunlight of the day to be shining across her fair complexion brought a smile to his face and had him to feel proud of the fact that he had her to call his own and no one was going to take that away from him. She was going to be with him until their time together came to an end, and he planned to take his own life when that day did come.

He had made a vow to himself silently that when she died that he would follow her in death. He didn't want to be with another woman of her kind when she was the only one that he wanted to be with. There wasn't anyone else that he could see himself being with besides her. Marion was who he belonged to and he would take his life on the day that she passed away from this world to go on to the next realm of existence so he could join her on it for all time. It was the only honorable thing for him to do in his opinion and it seemed to be the most reasonable thing for him to do.

His focus shifted away from where she had been sleeping away when he picked up on the presence of someone approaching his home from outside. He didn't wish to disturb Marion with news of someone being there and made sure to ease out of the bed as silently as he could manage to. His hands guided his loin cloth back over his frame to conceal his member that was now resting from where it had been standing fully erect during the course of their love making with one another. With himself dressed, Cohra stalked through his home in the direction of the front doorway of his ship to see as to who it was that dared to show up at his home at that time. He made the decision to peek around the corner of the doorway before seeing about stepping out into full sight.

The image entering his gaze caught him by surprise. Standing out in front of his home in the courtyard, a small human female child of no more than 5 years of age was holding herself and looking to the ship with both fear and desperation in her pitch black eyes. Her small body was shivering all over in what appeared to be nothing more than a tattered rag of a dress on her frame. It was when his eyes caught sight of bruises on her complexion of her face, as well as on her arms and little legs that brought him to come out of his home. She had been hurt by someone and that had him to come out to her.

He was careful in his approach of the child since he didn't wish for her to scream and alert others to where he was. Cohra walked so far before he stopped, leaving some distance between the little girl and himself. His gaze found her to not be running away from him with his mask not hiding his face or his armor concealing the scaley skin that was all over his body. This discovery brought him to move a little more closer to her prior to kneeling down on one of his knees. He motioned her to come towards him with one of his hands and watched her move to stand a little closer to him. His eyes found tears to be lingering in her eyes on the brink of rolling down the caramel complexion of her skin while her thick, black hair hung down the sides of her face with bits of dirt in it. Cohra directed his attention back to her eyes to see tears starting to come out of them while her soft voice trembled on its way out of her mouth to him.

"C-Can I stay here? I don't want to go home."

He picked up on that she had been hurt at wherever it was that she called home by someone that was supposed to be taking care of her. The discovery had his need to protect kick in and his head to nod to her. He wouldn't let the child go back to where she had been at from what had happened to her. One of his hands reached up and brushed the tears away from her face as he looked to her and spoke words to her with them vibrating some from his mandibles on the sides of his face.

"What is your name?"

"Mariah."

"Mariah, this is your home now. You are safe here."

He noticed her to be smiling quickly at the statement he had made to her before walking closer to hold onto him. At first, he wasn't sure of what to do in reaction to her holding him since only Marion had held onto him. He had never experienced it from a child, but the sensation was one that had a calming agent to it. As much as he was angry at the person who had done this to her, he would take in the hug from her. His strong arms moved around her body in a gentle embrace, and held onto her, letting her know that she was safe there with him and no one would hurt her as long as he was there with her. Cohra could sense Marion waking up inside of the ship and looked over to the open doorway of the ship. His eyes watched Marion making her way to the doorway of the home they shared with having put on the white peasant inspired top she wore the other day with the matching skirt on her frame before she stopped with a look of shock on her face at seeing him with a small human child. Keeping his eyes on her, he spoke up to her in a firm yet gentle tone, informing her of his decision to have the child to stay there.

"Marion...I would like you to come...and meet your new daughter, Mariah."