Filed to story: The CEO’s Wife Is a Secret Boss Novel (Allison & Jeremy) Free Online
“Half of you take the hiker back. The rest of you come with me! We need to find Ms. Allison!” Elias cried.”
Dispatch the search and rescue team right now! We need backup!”
“Mr. Parker, could she have been washed away by the rubble?”
“What if… What if she fell down the cliff?”
The team stood there dejectedly, not an ounce of hope in their chests.
“Don’t you dare spout nonsense like that! Ms. Allison is safe and sound, waiting for us to rescue her right now!” Elias yelled. Still, he had to bite his cheek to keep the tears from falling.
He had lost a teammate to one of these accursed landslides three years ago, so he knew just how much danger Alyssa was in, bravado or not.
“Look there, sir!” someone called out.
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Elias turned to look. Amid the rain and wind, a man in green camo hiking gear marched right up to them.
“Mr. Jeremy?”
“It really is him!”
Jeremy’s face was pale. He was drenched in rainwater, but his gaze remained steely and determined.
“Where’s Allison?” He nearly barked out.
“She… was swept away in a landslide while saving a lost hiker. We don’t know if she’s safe or in danger right now,” Elias bit out. There was no use hiding the truth right now.
Jeremy seemed to grow even paler. Pain tore at his heart in an instant.
“No. She can’t be. She’s going to be okay!” Jeremy growled madly.
Alyssa still owed him answers. She hadn’t gotten her revenge on him, and he hadn’t made things up to her yet for all the pain and suffering he caused her. So she couldn’t be dead. He wouldn’t allow it.
Wait for me, Alyssa!
With that burning thought in mind, Jeremy turned and ran back into the torrential rain, heading for the mountain trail.
Rain, rock, mud, and fog-those were the only things Alyssa could recall before losing consciousness.
She had used the last ounce of strength in her lithe body to push the hiker up toward the patrol team. All she hoped was that the hiker would be safe and sound.
Alyssa couldn’t call herself a competent park ranger and wear her badges if she hadn’t prepared herself for the risk of death. She wasn’t afraid of it as long as it was a meaningful death.
Frankly, she didn’t used to be so brave. In fact, she used to whine and cry whenever her father and stepmothers tried to bring her to the doctor for a shot.
She was 11 when she met him. That was when everything changed.
His bravado and determination were like the lighthouse she needed to guide her out from dark waters.
How he had intercepted danger to rescue her had permanently shifted her outlook on life.
It was the first time she had witnessed how selfless one could be for another.
Even if he had hurt her countless times after they married, Alyssa still couldn’t deny it.
She couldn’t deny just how much Jeremy had changed her life for the better.
It was as if he had rewritten the very stars.
Everything seemed to happen in a flash.
Alyssa had a strange dream. In it, her parents and brothers celebrated her childhood birthday with her.
Jonah lifted her into his arms and placed her onto a mountain of presents while Silas sang her “Happy
Birthday” off-key.
Liam raised her birthday cake to her lips, where she blew the candles out while Axel placed a toy gun in her hand.
Jeremy also appeared in her dreams, with vivid recollections of the battles they fought together on the battlefield, the first time she saw him while tending to Newton, and the cold-hearted manner in which he handed her divorce papers, ultimately driving her away.
A sudden pain spread out from the center of her chest, flooding her head and limbs.
Alyssa jolted awake, taking loud, hurried breaths as her body came back online. The sweat and rain on
“I’m still alive… I’m alive!” she cried, tears of relief falling down her cheeks.
If it wasn’t for that bastard and the hurt he had caused her, she might not have woken up from her death-
like sleep!
Just then, she recalled that she was still in danger.
She had been washed away to some unknown location, her backpack hanging limply on a nearby branch.
while she remained half-buried in rubble and rock off a ledge. She was nearly buried alive at this point.
“Shit!” Alyssa forced herself to calm down.
She muttered to herself, “I cannot die. I mustn’t! What would happen to Winston if I did? To Jonah and
Silas and Liam and … If I’m still alive, that means it’s not my time yet! I decide when I want to go!”
Just then, the branch above her let loose a loud snap.
Alyssa dared not say another word. She quickly pulled herself out from the rock and climbed onto safer ground. Just as she did, the branch above her snapped in half.
The longer end fell right into the bottomless pit of the mountainside beneath her feet.
Alyssa’s heart nearly leaped from her throat at the sight, but she couldn’t be bothered to feel scared. She needed to find a way to make it to higher ground so she could call for help!
The wind and rain picked up, water clouding her vision while chills racked her limbs.
The only thing keeping her climbing right now was her determined will to survive.
Alyssa had been raised by her three stepmothers from a young age due to her birth mother’s early passing.
Naturally, their habits, such as Colene’s horse-riding, archery, and rock-climbing hobbies, assimilated into her own.
Fortunately, those hobbies were a lifesaver, as she couldn’t imagine how she would survive in her current situation without them.
As Alyssa was about to reach the mountain trail above, there suddenly came rumbling by her feet. Rock and sand snaked past her hands. Another landslide was coming fast!
“Damn it! Is this what I get for doing charity for all these years?” Alyssa yelled indignantly.
The rock beneath her feet suddenly shifted and tumbled from its ledge at that precise moment, leaving her body dangling precariously.
“Help!” Despair and fear washed over her.
An immeasurably long fall awaited her below. She was going to die falling, and no one would ever find her.
A tear escaped her eye as she shut them tight, awaiting her fate.
“Alyssa!”
Suddenly, a pair of hands wrapped around her wrists and pulled her back to solid ground.
She slowly opened her eyes.
Jeremy was staring right at her, his eyes wide and seemingly delving into her very soul. Her breathing hitched.
“J-Jeremy?”
Was she dreaming right now? Or hallucinating?