Save Her Lose Us (Evangeline and Soren) novel Chapter 388

By evening, golden sunlight slanted into the bottom of the ravine.

Evangeline and Finn were out scouting for a path forward, while Soren, with his broken leg, was left alone in the cave.

After nearly a full day, he had finally accepted his reality. He had found Evangeline, but instead of helping, he had gotten himself trapped with them.

He was filled with a mix of complicated feelings.

Finding Evangeline was a reason to be happy. Being trapped in such a harsh environment, subsisting on wild fruits, was unsettling, but he wasn’t so delicate that he couldn’t adapt.

What truly bothered him, however, was the way Evangeline looked at Finn.

Although he had long since accepted that they were divorced and she was with Finn, seeing the adoration in her eyes when she looked at the other man still stirred an uncomfortable feeling within him.

That look, so full of love and tenderness, was once reserved only for him. Later, it seemed even he rarely saw it anymore.

As he was lost in thought, the sound of familiar laughter echoed from outside. Evangeline and Finn were walking back into the cave, deep in conversation.

The sound was grating to Soren’s ears.

He snorted, his mind filling with silent complaints.

Finn, what a player. All he knows are sweet nothings to charm young women.

And Evangeline… a few words and she’s beaming like that? What’s so funny? What’s there to laugh about?

And to think he had been so worried he couldn’t sleep, plagued by nightmares about her safety. If he had known they were having such a grand time down here, he never would have come.

“I don’t care,” Soren retorted. “You figure it out.”

Evangeline sighed. She could tell he was deliberately trying to make things difficult for her. Still, she tried to dissuade him. “We don’t have any seasonings. Steamed fish will be gamey and awful.”

“Hah,” Soren sneered. “Just say you’ve moved on. You don’t need to make so many excuses.”

“See that, Mr. Lockridge?” Soren said, looking at Finn with a mocking smile. “This is how women are. Always chasing something new. I’m not the first, and you won’t be the last. Once she finds her next boy toy, you’ll end up just like me.”

Evangeline had had enough.

“Fine! Shut up. I’ll figure something out.”

It wasn’t that she was worried Finn would be swayed by his words. It was that she knew if she didn’t let Soren have his steamed fish, he would make the next few days unbearable for them all.