Bound by His Promise
“But I’m still me. For now.”
Static swallowed his next words. Then new code began scrolling across the screen faster than I could read.
“Lucas,” I gasped, “he’s trying to show us something!”
He typed furiously, isolating the lines of code until a phrase emerged in bold text:
> TARGET: E.V. SYSTEM CORE. LOCATION — UNKNOWN.
Jake’s voice returned, weaker.
> “Find her before the next cycle. The Return Protocol will reset in 72 hours. After that, I disappear.”