After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 198

Chapter 198

please drink,” she said quietly to him, holding the shell to his lips. The pale liquid inside drizzled across his lips. For a moment, there was no reaction from him.

Then his throat worked as he swallowed and she tipped it further, giving him as much as he’d drink.

“Thank goddess,” she said. After a moment she pulled it away and drank the remaining water from inside She had never quite liked the taste of coconut before, yet right now, it tasted like heaven.

Yet she knew they couldn’t just survive on coconuts. Lucas needed something more substantial in order to heal.

She needed to find something before her own strength began to wane.

“I’m going out,” Elaine told him.

No response.

“Just….please keep breathing while I’m gone.”

Elaine stood up. She took the knife with her, then set back out into the jungle. She knew exactly what they needed.

A boar.

Lucas had wanted to hunt one, perhaps she should have let him. That kind of meat would have lasted them several days.

Being unable shift, Elaine had to think of another way to take one down.

She ventured into the jungle, following the trail she remembered toward the spring. And along it, those tracks. Pressed into the jungle floor, the hoofprints of those boars.

There were quite a few of them, from what Elaine could tell. Likely slow and fat from having no other predators here on the island. In theory, they should be easy to kill.

Following the tracks carefully, they led Elaine to the spring pool. The snorting beasts gathered along the bank, split between foraging in the dense underbrush along it, or drinking.

Elaine crouched down, knife in hand.