After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 222

Chapter 222

Kyle tossed a medical bag to one of the crew on the speedboat before turning back to the shore, looking up toward Liam, who was walking down to the docks.

“Ready to go?” Liam asked.

“Just about. Making sure we have everything in case we find them,” Kyle replied.

“When we find them,” Liam corrected. He glanced briefly to the boat, then over his shoulder toward the helicopter that’s getting ready for takeoff. “Have the same loadout for the heli too. Hoping we find them quickly.”

“We have the general location?”

“Twenty–mile radius,” Liam confirmed and looked back over at Kyle. “We’ll find them.” a

There was such certainty in his voice that Kyle was sure it would be true. They’d find them today, there was no doubt in Liam’s mind as he would not stop searching until he did.

Kyle watched him as Liam turned to head back toward the helicopter. Then with a sigh, he turned and stepped onto the boat, waving to the captain to get going. The engine rumbled beneath him as the boat roared to life.

He walked over to one of the supply crates and bent down, pulling out a walkie–talkie and flipping it on.

“You ready to head out? Over,” Kyle said.

The device rattled on, and Liam’s voice connected. “Does that even need to be asked? Over.”

Kyle chuckled. “Just making sure, captain.”

“Captain? I like the sound of that.”

Kyle lowered the walkie–talkie and looked out over the open ocean as the boat pulled away from the dock. The sounds of the helicopter whirling to life behind him drew his eye. Liam headed up, getting his own birds–eye view of the ocean before them.

“Location forty miles out.” Liam’s voice once more crackled over the device.

Kyle nodded as he raised it to his own lips. “About two hours until we reach search radius. We splitting up?”

“Safe bet too. We’ll go north at the edge of the radius. We’ll circle east, move in from there.”

“Copy that. We’ll stay south then. Any island within the radius is fair game,” Kyle replied.

With the plan in place, he settled in for a long ride.

Just before the two–hour mark, Kyle was up and about on the boat once more. Liam’s helicopter had pulled ahead quite a while ago to begin the search in earnest, moving up northeast.

Kyle walked up beside the boat’s captain, leaning over his shoulder to take a look at the radar

“We got any signs of land?”

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“None so far,” the captain replied. “It might take a while before we–”

The radar pinged.

The captain blinked in surprise and looked down. Kyle leaned forward a little further before smirking. He pushed away from the helm and strode toward the front of the ship.

“You were saying, Captain?”

The captain rolled his eyes. “Alright, alright. Hang tight, we’re heading toward the ping.”

Kyle pulled up his walkie–talkie. “Liam, you copy?”

It crackled. “I copy. What’s going on?”

“Pulling up to an island. We’re investigating now.”

“Let me know if you find anything.”

“Or anyone.”

Kyle lowered it as the boat sped toward the small island, surrounded by the deep blue of the ocean. The boat neared its shores, and Kyle narrowed his eyes.

It didn’t seem like anyone was here. Over the radio, Lucas had explained the plane wreck was surrounded by the reef around the island they’d crashed near. Kyle saw no such evidence here.

“Bring it in!” he shouted to the captain anyway, motioning to the shore. It never hurt to check.

Liam drummed his fingers nervously in his lap. The idea that Elaine was out there something, injured and weak, made his stomach churn. While he was certain they’d find her today, every moment they didn’t made his worry grow.