After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 201

Chapter 201

It felt like he was floating. Drifting in a sea of nothingness, content and warm. He wasn’t sure how long he’d been here, in this empty space. It was soothing in its quiet. Memories played out before him like a

movie screen.

The one that kept flickering back to the forefront of his mind was his wedding. When she’d come walking down the isle in that white gown. More beautiful than he thought possible.

Though at the time he hadn’t even shed a tear, well aware that everyone was watching.

She come down the isle to him, her father passing her off happily. He’d taken her hand and guided her before the preacher, who’d declared before the goddess‘ name they were one.

He’d kissed her and distinctly remembered the sweet taste of her lips against his.

He remembered their wedding night. When they’d moved together as one, sweat–slicked and flushed. 2

Then he woke up.

Lucas groaned heavily as the dream state faded away, and pain radiated up through his abdomen. He moved his hands slowly, pressing one to his side as the other braced against the ground.

Lucas looked around, his head pounding and his limbs weak. His stomach growled insistantly at him as if he hadn’t eaten in days.

“What…” he muttered. Then his sense came flooding back and he jerked upright as he remembered what had happeined.

“Elaine—“Pain shot through his body as he grunted, pressing his hand harder to his side. Finally he took in his surroundings.

This was not the camp it had been in when he passed out.

Was it even possibly to be homely? It was certainly bigger. He was still on the parachute, but a fire crackled a few feet away and opposite that was a bed made of branches, elevated above the ground.

Above him was a roof of palm fronds. In fact, those same structures littered the camp and covered different stations.

One above the fire, more above the bed. A lean–to sat at the far edge of the camp, blocking most of the wind coming up from the beach. And…

Because be was.