After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 162

Chapter 162

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Lucas dodged backward from the punch, ducking to the side and keeping his hands up. He eyed his opponent, who stepped away to avoid an opening and sized him up with equal intensity.

They’d been at this for a while now.

Sweat beaded down Lucas‘ skin. Bruises littered his body. The past few days had been an intense blur of this Hardly anything else could occupy him enough to distract him.

His opponent rushed him again. He was a large beta, not Kyle, who nearly rivaled an Alpha in stature. Impressive. An opponent Lucas could actually go all out against.

Lucas blocked the strike and returned with one of his own, a sharp jab to the beta’s abdomen that sent him back a step. It wasn’t much, but enough for Lucas to press the advantage.

The beta pulled back to regain the space between them, and they circled.

“You’ve been doing this all morning,” Kyle said as he entered the gym, walking past a punching bag to stand at the edge of the mat.

He watched as Lucas and the other beta exchanged blows.

“You have work to do.”

“Can’t focus,” Lucas growled out as he side–stepped to avoid another strike.

Kyle leaned against a pillar, crossing his arms. “People are going to start wondering where their Alpha and president are. You can’t exactly take a break from that.”

Lucas glared sideways at Kyle. That gave the beta an opening to lunge forward. He tackled Lucas, arms around X middle, and they both went to the floor. Lucas landed with a grunt on his back.

His head hit the mat..

And suddenly he was taken back to the night he found Elaine. Lying there on her back in the dirt and sand, too. as if she might slip away from him forever. He recalled that warmth in his chest as he held her and so desperately tried to pour all of that heat into her shivering body.

Lucas blinked and he was back in the gym.

The beta was over him, ready to throw another punch. Lucas struck first, striking the beta across the face then twisting his hips to throw his opponent off him.

There was a kind of ease to the movements that signified he was done with all of this.

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