After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 205

Chapter 205

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Elaine pulled away from Lucas, wiping her arm off quickly with her hand, trying to get rid of the blood. Lucas had already seen it, but she still didn’t want him to know about her illness. Not when he’d already burned her so many times before when she tried to tell him.

She simply didn’t trust him anymore, and now of all times seemed like the worst place for him to

discover it.

“Elaine…”

“It’s nothing,” she said. “It’s just…it’s been a lot ever since you got hurt.”

Lucas believed that, but he didn’t believe that was the reason she was coughing up blood. “Elaine. ”

“I tripped. I bit the inside of my mouth,” she lied.

He just stared at her.

Elaine knew it was a dumb excuse and it wasn’t working but she had to go with it now. She simply shrugged. “I don’t know what else to tell you.”

“You can start with the truth,” Lucas said and inclined his head forward, willing for her to at least try and come up with something better.

Elaine struggled to come up with anything, so instead, she walked past him, looking out into the serf.” We need a radio. The cockpit might have one,” she said.

He sighed softly, shaking his head as he turned to her. He reached out to take her hand gently. “Let’s go back to camp for now. You’ve been pushing yourself too hard while I’ve been out of commission”

“We should build a raft–”

“Come on,” Lucas said, tugging her backward from the shore. Elaine resisted for a step before relenting and following him back toward camp, limping up the beach after him.

He was probably going to ask again. And again and again. Yet she knew that he’d likely not believe her. He never had. So what was the point in even saying anything? He’d proven it time and again that he wasn’t trustworthy.

So why would she tell him now?

Yet when they returned to camp and he ushered her to sit beside the crackling fire, he didn’t ask her anything about it. Instead, he went to the bundle of sticks he’d gotten earlier this morning and selected fan of the same length. Then grabbed some wound vines and returned to her

He sat down in front of her “You’ve been limping,” he said.

was rude and wouldn’t hold well, not really, but it was something. And it would force her to be inte

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