Page 117 of Sohut's Protection

They were being beamed up into the ship above them and there was nothing she could do about it.

Her eyes locked on Sohut’s, on the man that had stolen her heart without her even realizing, and the utter pain in his eyes was enough to break her heart.

“Sohut…” She gulped.

The last thing she saw, an image that would be committed to her memory forever, was Sohut reaching for her…

Her heart broke.

It broke into a million pieces because there was a distinct feeling that she’d never feel his touch ever again.

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Sohut fell on his back, his breath coming in labored gasps.

They’d almost shocked the life out of him and he’d have let them if that had meant he could’ve saved her.

But he couldn’t.

He’d failed.

Again he’d failed.

In the darkness of the jungle, the world never felt more alone…more desolate.

Clee-yo was gone because of him.

Once more, he was the reason the person he cared about the most was going to…

He didn’t dare to say it.

He didn’t even dare to think it.

The feeling of dread that he’d been harboring finally settled around him.

This was what he’d been afraid of.

This was the future he hadn’t wanted to happen.

This was the reason it’d all felt too good to be true.

A pained sound left him as he tried to rise into a sitting position, propping himself up on his elbows.

In his hand, something blinked red in the darkness.

The tracker.

His life-organ skipped a beat.

He still had the tracker.

It gave him a bittersweet feeling and he gripped the device tightly.

He couldn’t have destroyed it. Doing so would have activated it anyway. He’d needed to decommission it completely and the only way to do that would have been to take it back to his friend, Ka’Cit.

Ka’Cit would have had the tech to do such a thing.

Bio-trackers were finicky devices. It wasn’t something he’d wanted to play around with.

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