After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 289

Chapter 289

A rogue in wolf form tore past him. Lucas dodged to the side, his sleek gray–furred build not only stronger but faster than the mandy beast he was facing. He whirled around, lunging for the neck.

All it took was one bite. Fangs sank deep and devastating. The rogue wouldn’t be moving again.

Lucas jumped away as three others charged him. Did they really think they could take him down with such measly numbers? He almost felt insulted. Though one of them had white fur.

He recalled a memory. Something distant and sweet and one he could not ignore. Elaine in her own wolf form. The white fur that always seemed to glisten in the light.

She had never been one to shift often, though Lucas had always admired her form when she had.

Elaine, who was now apparently sick. She’d get better, he was certain of it. She looked fine. Better than fine, really. Though lately, Lucas noticed she’d also tended to look so beautiful without even trying…

He hesitated.

The rogue latched onto his shoulder and Lucas jerked, snarling as he turned and snapped his jaws, just missing the damned rogue. Another came from his left, and managed to pounce on his haunches.

Lucas‘ snarl turned savage as he whipped himself around, trying to throw the two off. The third came at his right, aiming for the neck as Lucas struggled to rid himself of the other two.

Kyle jumped in. His ashen wolf slammed into the third rogue and knocked him away, fangs tearing into

flesh.

Lucas rolled, managing to crush one of the rogues on him against the ground and throw the other off. He was back on his feet in an instant, ending the ambushers. Kyle finished off the other and joined him.

The Beta’s nose pressed into his Alpha’s bleeding shoulder, then a harder headbutt as he urged Lucas away from the fight.

Lucas snarled at first, snapping at Kyle, before he reluctantly began to move. He pulled himself from the sounds of the fight, crossing the border and into pack territory once more. He shifted back as he got behind the line of officers and their vehicles.

Kyle shifted soon after, the change coming slower for him than it did for his Alpha, and grabbed a nearby jacket an officer offered. He pulled it over his shoulders.

“You’re distracted, Alpha,” Kyle said, wiping blood from his nose. “They could have gotten you.”

“Three rogues cannot take down an Alpha,” Lucas muttered.

“Can’t they?”

Lucas grumbled as he walked toward the command tent and ducked inside. The walls concealed their movements from the rogues in the treeline. Not that they were watching. Those rogues were all too busy in the fight.

“An Alpha can be killed by anything if he’s careless enough,” Kyle warned. He ducked into the tent. And you are careless.”

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Chapter 289

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Lucas felt his anger rising once more. He breathed out, tamping it down as he countered, “Careless is an Alpha who does not come to the border to protect his pack.”

“Distracted, then. You cannot deny it.”

Lucas waved a dismissive hand, grabbing his phone and opening it up.

Kyle growled in frustration. “Sit down. You’re wounded.”

“Did you just give me an order?”

“Just sit down,” the Beta muttered, walking over to grab a medkit. “If you are this distracted, you should not be partaking in these fights. This pack will be weak without an Alpha. Let alone the country without its president.”

Lucas rolled his eyes. “They’d elect someone new.”

“Someone like Volk? I don’t think we’re better off with him as Alpha President,” Kyle mused.

Lucas sighed. “Just patch me up. I have work to return to at the estate.”

“Of course you do.”

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