After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 196

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Dacas opened his mouth to argue, but Elaine was already running. Yet she paused mid–stride. She’d already searched in the areas around the camp for it. The pilot wouldn’t have been able to hide it very far; he wouldn’t have had the time.

So it couldn’t be in the jungle. But perhaps…

Elaine turned to look back at the camp. Or, what had once been their camp. There was nothing on the groundnow. No supplies they’d gathered. No suitcase. No medkit.

She walked forward, turning a circle. If it had been buried, she would have seen the disturbed sand and dir. Nothing seemed out of place.

That’s when she looked up. Into the trees above them. And that’s where she spotted it.

The first–aid kit was hanging by a branch several yards up. The suitcase was there as well, leaning against a trunk, secured by a vine.

Elaine rushed over to the tree, hauling herself upwards through the branches. She reached the suitcase first, tossing it down to the ground. Then strained up to grab the kit.

An emotion surged through her. Pride. She tilted her head, glancing back down toward the ground, and noticed Lucas was watching her.

“Clever girl,” he rasped.

Elaine kept the kit at her side as she came back down from the tree, landing awkwardly on her still aching ankle. She knelt beside Lucas.

“There are stitches in here. I can close the wound as soon as the blade is out,” Elaine said.

He nodded once but said nothing. That wasn’t a good sign.

Elaine looked up at his face, and his eyes were closed once more, sweat beading down the side of his temple.

She gritted her teeth, opening up the kit and taking a roll of gauze and bandages out. She uncoiled a length of gauze and tore it off, pressing it around the wound and getting ready. She looked at his face.

“This is going to hurt.”

Another nod. He was already bracing for it.