“Then come with me, Azuliana, and I won’t kill him. I am trying to protect you.”“I don’t need your protection, child!” Mother’s words sn...pped in the night.“Your word or he dies,” the amazon said. “Hurry. I have a moon maiden still to capture, too! I will count to three, then your son dies. One!”I swallowed. What could I do?Mother hesitated, her eyes widening.“Two!”My heart screamed in my chest. My vision narrowed to a dark tunnel aimed right at that sharp point of the arrowhead.“Thr—”“No!”. Again more moaning and groaning coming from our marital bedroom. I slowly crept up the stairs, wanting to keep the element of surprise and catch the bastard in the act of fucking my wife. Closer and closer I got and finally reached the top of the stairs, face wet with perspiration, heart beating so hard I thought it was trying to escape my chest. I crossed the landing, in two minds now. Half of me wanting to catch them at it and half of me wanting to run away and pretend our life was perfect. "Think you that our contact could have been waylaid?"Kiya turned back to watching the sere landscape before them. "I worry," she replied softly, fingering the arrow she held in one hand while gripping the comforting weight of her bow. "The Meerzuar have expanded far inland. I think we must assume they might have penetrated the mountains."They continued to watch the empty plain, grasping at hope as it faded with the light of the setting sun. The shadows of the forest were cast far out onto the. You must have forgotten, I need no such reason. You are mine to do with as I please, when it pleases me. Finally you are naked and you kneel down at my side, but that won’t help you this time. I run my finger along your neck to the collar placed there long ago. I pull on it, making you look me in the face and say, ”You will be punished.“ I can tell by your eyes that you are sorry but the thought of my punishment excites you, as it does me. I stand and walk into the bedroom, you follow.