Page 18 of Sohut's Protection

A strange creature.

Something alien.

The scent was a few days old but there was enough of it for him to know he’d never scented anything like it before.

Thank Raxu for the lack of wind under the canopy or the smell might have been too faint for him to notice.

Blinking rapidly, Sohut’s brows furrowed and his ears stood up from the sides of his head as he scanned the bushes around him.

He knew he was alone…at least, as alone as he could be with the animals in the jungle around him.

No creature had crept close enough to him without him realizing it.

He still scanned the bushes anyway, his frown deepening when he finally lined up with the direction in which the scent was strongest.

Inhaling deeply, his ears perked even more as he processed just what he was scenting.

Maybe the Gori had been right.

He couldn’t believe it…but maybe the creature they’d sent him to find still lived.

As he inhaled deeply once more, he took a step forward only to pause again, his eyes widening.

A curse slipped from his lips.

The creature was female.

Somehow, he knew that fact with clarity.

Phek.

Undeniably female.

Taking another breath, a groan rumbled in his chest that had him stiffening for another reason.

Horror couldn’t describe what he was suddenly feeling as his gaze slowly fell.

The phlickin’ phek?

Pressing against his trousers was his…phekking draxx…he was solid and hard.

His lips pulled back in a snarl, his fangs baring.

He was aroused by the scent of an alien creature?

Raxu in the phekking stars.

Growling underneath his breath, he stretched the muscles in his back, more than slightly perturbed by this occurrence.

This was something that never, ever happened before and he sure as phek wasn’t going to acknowledge it.

Pushing the disturbing thoughts from his mind, he focused on his task and the scent that was drawing him farther into the dense growth.

Time to do the job he was hired to do.

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It’d been three days.

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