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Veck How long had it been there? Had it registered the training pod?

He flicked on co pod

“Rok, this is Erick speaking I have a tail I don’t kno long it’s been on est relocation of Freedom”

“Copy that Can you lose it?”

“Yes, and I will, although there’s no point The palatial pod coordinates are well known But this isn’t the first time I’ve been followed There must be a tracker on my ship”

Part of him hoped Mina would show interest He could put her on the task of finding the tracker, give her a sense of purpose But she just sat there like the carved statues that used to adorn the palace in the capital of Zandia

“Get rid of it We’ll update the prince with the new coordinates”

He ended the co his followers, he put the ship into turbo mode and zipped around Ocretion airspace several ti on the palatial pod He would have the ship thoroughly searched for a tracking device, but he knehat it ht and close And, if they were salactacarriers

As uncoht had been, he didn’t want it to end He knew, instinctively, that the moment Mina walked off his ship, their relations would be over

“Mina—Tara—” he called to her as she zoomed toward the hatch

She stopped but didn’t look back, just hung her head

Seeing her so defeated vecking slayed him

“I’m sorry”

“You don’t have anything to be sorry for,” she snapped, turning and sluainst the hatch She pushed her pale hair out of her face

It took all his self-control not to crowd her, not to get up into her space, cage her against that door, press his body against hers and reether