Chapter 14
Elizabeth rushed to the front line with the rest of the team, her eyes scanning desperately through the wreckage.
She didn’t know how long she’d been searching, but finally, near a wrecked truck she spotted him.
The man was being lifted onto a stretcher. They’d barely moved a few steps when his black mask slipped off.
Pamela gasped. “Oh my God! He’s hot.”
Elizabeth looked down, and the moment she saw his face, her breath caught in her throat. Daniel.
It was really him.
At the same time, Daniel’s eyes fluttered open on the stretcher.
When he saw Elizabeth standing next to him, he reached out and grabbed her wrist without hesitation. His voice shook with relief, like he’d just come back from the edge of death. “Elizabeth… don’t go.”
Pamela blinked in disbelief. “Wait, you two know each other?”
Elizabeth didn’t know how to answer.
She tried to pull away, but Daniel’s grip was iron. His grip was like shackles, locking her in place; she couldn’t break free.
So, tangled in awkward silence, they made their way back to camp in that strange, messy posture.
Elizabeth wanted to leave, but Daniel refused to let her. He only wanted her to treat his wounds.
Even Pamela gave up trying to help. “Ellie, just do it already. If nothing else, do it for that face.”
Elizabeth didn’t say a word. She had practically been forced to stay.
Silently, she grabbed the med kit and began treating his wounds, her expression unreadable. She didn’t speak throughout the entire process.
Then Daniel uttered her name, and in that moment, something inside her snapped. Without warning, she pressed down hard on one of his injuries.
Daniel gasped, his breath catching in his throat from the sharp sting of pain, but Elizabeth still didn’t feel any better.
She thought she’d let it all go. She thought she was past it. But the moment she saw Daniel’s face again, everything came flooding back. The shame, betrayal, and the way he’d left her to be torn apart and humiliated.
She had trusted Daniel so deeply, and how had he repaid her?
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Where My Heart Was Hidden