After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 153

Blaine pressed herself against the far end of the truck, each breath a struggled wheeze. Her lungs burned, and her hand was covered in the blood she’d since coughed up. This episode was worse.

So far, it hadn’t gotten better.

Not when she could hardly breath between the sobs that racked her now fragile frame. Her dad had done this. He’d planned all of this.

There was a time, long ago, things were so much different. It was so difficult not to reminisce as of late.

Elaine could recall the first time she’d ever tried shifting. It had come difficult for her, then. She’d been eight years old, others learned to do it much earlier. Yet she had already struggled.

“It is not a force. It is a feeling,” Walter had said, then he’d pressed his hand to her chest. “Your wolf is apart of you.” t

Elaine closed her eyes, smiling faintly at the memory.

“But I can’t! I never works,” she’d said. 1

And Walter looked down at her with steady eyes and a gentle smile. “Do not force her to come. Feel its call, and answer it.”

When Elaine opened her eyes, all she looked up at was the cold, metal ceiling of the truck. A truck taking her to be married off to some man she did not know.

Her final days to be spent away from everyone she loved.

Because Elaine knew she no longer had months left. Not anymore. Tears continued to slip down her face.

How terrible to die like this. After learning just how little her own dad had come to care for her. It was like his love had faded throughout the years until his heart for her was cold as ice.

How terrible to die like this. Alone.

Elaine inhaled sharply. She didn’t want to die alone. Not like this.

The truck drove over a bump, the back door rattled. Elaine looked toward it, then around at the crates surrounding her. They’d been of little use to her before but now she wondered…

Elaine pushed herself up, swallowing back the taste of iron in her mouth. She looked into one of the crates. Empty. She moved to another way, bracing against the wall as the vehicle drove over another bump.

The road was uneven, she wondered where they were.

The thought was fleeting as she spotted ac crowbar at the bottom of the next crate. A smile creased her features. Perhaps she wouldn’t have to die here after all.

Elaine reached down and took it, then stumbled over to the truck door.

She knelt, jamming the edge of the crowbar beneath the rim. With all her strength, all her weight, she shoved downward on the bar. It creaked. The lock holding it closed on the outside held.

Elaine took a moment, catching her breath, then tried again.

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The lock broke. The door slid upwards as the crowbar tumbled out the back of the truck, landing on a dirt road.

Elaine glanced up, hope surging through her chest. Quickly dashed by the fact she was in a forest. No city. No houses. Just a forest covered by the darkness of night. That didn’t matter. Anything was better than staying in this truck.

The road whizzed by beneath the vehicle, they were going fast.

Elaine inhaled slowly as she sat at the back of the truck. On the exhale, she jumped out of the vehicle she landed, legs giving immediately to the pressure.

She tumbled across the ground, momentum carrying her several feet before she stopped. She waited there a moment, pain radiating throughout her entire body. That landing had jolted through her, and now she knew something wasn’t right.

The truck drove on several more yards before screeching to a halt.

Elaine looked up. The driver must have noticed her jump.

She pushed herself to her feet, coughing. Blood splattered the dirt but she managed to stand up, then ran into the forest as the driver was getting out.

“Hey! Stop!” he yelled after her, his voice echoing through the trees.

“Nowhere to go now,” he said.

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