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Chapter Twenty-Two

Marion watched on helplessly at finding her mate to be battleing with a human general that had caused a diversion for them to be separated from the rest of the other soldiers so he could make a desperate attempt to take her away from her mate, and, possibly, do things to her daughter, her newborn son, and herself for having been around Cohra as if he was harboring some kind of a toxic and contagious disease that would cause a type of infection in her body that would cause her DNA make-up to change from where it had been previous to meeting him to that moment.

She had an understanding that her body had went through changes from the times that she had sex with him up to when she gave birth to Autou, but there was nothing deadly or dangerous about it. If he would have killed her by them having sex with one another, her life would have been over by now if that was the case. However, their lives were in danger now that a general had decided to step in and try to assert his authority with being the one to 'save' her and the children from this 'monster' when the only one that was the real beast was the one that decided to lash out at her husband when he was only protecting them and keeping them safe from harm.

While she was watching from where she was nestled on the ground with Autou in her arms and Mariah at her side, she noticed a gun from the general being knocked out of his hand and onto the ground nearby. Her eyes had a little light to them from where she was nestled against the base of a tree with her baby in her arms. She turned to where Mariah was and waited for her eyes to make contact with hers before she made a silent gesture to where the gun was located on the ground close to her, suggesting for her to get to it and bring it over to where she was at. Marion found her daughter nodding her head and making the move for the weapon.

This is exactly what I need to do right now in order to stop the fighting and, if I have to, end the life of that miserable general who thinks he is tying to help me when he is only hurting himself.

Having herself to sit up a little better, she waited for Mariah to snatch the pistol up and rush over to her with it in her hands. She got it from her and made sure it was loaded prior to focusing back on where the general was fighting with Cohra to find him having her mate on the ground. From where she was nestled, she brought the pistol up and gave a shout towards him in a deathly serious tone of voice that caught his attention straight away.

"Get the hell away from my husband right now, you piece of shit!"

Her choice of words were met with shock by the general when he realized that Marion was not only aiming the gun at him with the aim being to shoot hi if he didn't stand down , but that she had called Cohra her husband when he viewed him as a monster. She kept her hand that was holding the gun steady while her other arm was cradling her infant son in her arms. Sensing Mariah moving to the other side of her body, her eyes remained on the human man from where she was sitting on the ground as he made a plea towards her.

"Miss, you have been brainwashed." The general said. "This alien has done something to you in order to make you think that you are not a prisoner when you are in fact one."

"His name is Cohra, and the only one that is trying to make my children, my husband and myself a prisoner is a bastard in a uniform, pretending to do good when he only knows is pure evil in order to get ahead within his unit."

"You need to lower the gun down so we can talk."

"There is nothing to talk about. You are going to get out of our jungle and never come back here after us again."

"Or what?"

She found his voice becoming a little bold towards her from what she had said to him. Deciding to show him that she is not someone to be messed with, she cocked the trigger back with her thumb while her hand remained steady and not shaking at all while she spoke to him in a way to get across to him that she was being very serious.

"Or I will blow your brains out here right now and we'll leave your body as food for the animals of the jungle to feast upon."

"You are bluffing. I can tell that you don't have it in you to do what you claim you are going to do-"

"I used a knife to assist in the murder of a soldier that came to our old home to take me from him when he attacked my mate, and the next time I murdered was when a friend and myself found soldiers coming towards us and I used a gun my husband gave to me to use on one of the soldiers while I spared the other one's life. The most recent kill I made was when I was heading through the jungle with my mate and my daughter to our new home and I took down a soldier in a tree that was just a sitting duck."

With her focus being unchanged on him, she watched him starting to waiver some from what she had told him while she found Cohra having gotten to his feet behind him without making much of a noise. She found what he was about to do and got ready to shield Mariah's eyes from what was to happen since her hands were already over her ears. Maintaining her composure, she narrowed her eyes in on him as she spoke with a little more of an edge to her voice.

"You were wrong about something else, general."

"And what was that?"

"Not killing my husband."

Once she got those words out to him, she saw him spin around to face her husband. Her hand dropped the gun down and quickly moved to shield Mariah's eyes from her witnessing what was about to happen since her ears were covered. She looked back in time to find Cohra's blade that was in his sleeve to have impaled the man through the neck, silencing him before he could let out any screams. Her eyes watched for him to toss the dead body to the side before she lowered her hands from her daughter's eyes and nodded to her to lower her hands down. It was in that moment she heard the yautja guards running back to where they were and looked back in time to see Cohra turning to face them with the general's dead body lying close at his feet with blood dripping down from the blade sticking out of his sleeve he had used to protect his family. From where she was with Mariah and Autou, Marion watched her husband engage in a conversation with the guards and could tell that he was frustrated at what just happened.