The Luna Queen's Rebirth (Ellie and Dominic) novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282

“Ellie!” Lucas, turning, helped pull me to my feet. I yelped again as the weight on my leg made fresh pain shoot through me, forcing me to pitch forward against his chest.

“Shit.” Lucas looked down at my leg. It was trembling, the nerves winding tight from the pain. I looked down, too, as Lucas crouched and peeled my sock down. Just that light touch made the pain worse, and I grabbed a nearby sapling to keep myself upright

Lucas hissed through his teeth and looked up at me. “Swelling already,” he said. Or at least, I think he said it. I could only see his lips move, his voice completely drowned out by the rain.

“I’m fine,” I said.

We both knew that was a lie.

Lucas stood, placing his hands on my shoulders. “Can you walk?!” he shouted.

1 nodded, biting down hard on my lip, and tried to take a hobbling step forward. My leg immediately protested, and my knees began to crumple beneath me. Before I knew it, Lucas was sweeping me off my feet.

My ankle didn’t like that one bit. Just the movement alone made me dig my fingers into Lucas’s shoulders, scrunching my eyes shut in pain.

“Dammit,” Lucas said, looking around. The path stretched seemingly endlessly in both directions-uphill at a sharp, slippery incline one way, downhill the other. His light hair was already stuck to his face, and both of our clothes were completely soaked through.

“We can’t make it the rest of the way like this,” I said, stomach sinking with the realization. “The house is closer. We should head back that way,”

Lucas’s jaw tightened. “I just want you to be safe.”

“I’d like for both of us to be safe,” I sighed.

Lucas looked at me for a moment, then at the uphill trail. Finally, coming to the same conclusion I had, he began to carry me back toward the house.

I wasn’t sure how long Lucas walked. The pain made everything feel stretched out and eternal, each step sending fresh agony shooting up my leg. But eventually, we came out of the treeline into the rain. I saw the house ahead through the downpour, and I also saw Dominic.

He was standing at the edge of the forest, already soaking wet. He saw us at almost exactly the same moment as we saw him. Lucas’s footsteps haltered, and he tightened his grip on me. For a second, nobody moved. Then Dominic was jogging toward us. Even from here, I could see his expression was dark and angry. But there was a thread of concern there, too.

“What happened?” he asked when he reached us.

“She slipped on the trail,” Lucas said. “Her ankle.”

Dominic’s eyes dropped to my ankle and then came back up to my face. “Why didn’t you mindlink me?” he asked His voice was strained around the edges. “I would have come.”

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Jbitiny tongue to keep from saying sotnething nasty. “Lucas was right there,” I said instead.

Dominic’s eyes darkened further. “I’m your husband, Eilie.”

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