The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 343

During the exercise, twenty team members suffered minor injuries, fifteen were seriously hurt, and ten hovered at death's door.

Those with minor wounds recovered quickly after taking the medicine Instructor Carmichael had provided. The seriously injured followed her instructions for bandaging and stopping the bleeding; after medical treatment, none were left with lasting damage. As for the soldiers who nearly died, at the critical moment, they opened the small metal boxes Carmichael had handed out. The Vitaflux capsules inside pulled them back from the brink, snatching them away from death itself.

Not only did the team win the exercise in spectacular fashion, but not a single soldier was lost.

After it was all over, Carmichael was about to head outside to greet the returning squad. She hadn't even reached the door when a crowd of soldiers came rushing towards her, filling the hallway with shouts and laughter.

She froze for a split second, a strange sense of foreboding prickling at her nerves. Just as she was about to turn and make a run for it, Hastings caught her around the waist. A moment later, the rest of the team swept in and hoisted her into the air, tossing her up, catching her, and tossing her again in a whirlwind of jubilation.

Their faces shone with joy as they chanted, "Instructor Carmichael! Instructor Carmichael!"

The infectious energy of their celebration washed over her, and soon Carmichael was laughing right along with them.

"Instructor Carmichael, we couldn't have done it without you! If not for your guidance, there's no way we would have won this time."

who had drilled them relentlessly on tactics, who had taught them to recognize and counter strategies used by elite teams from around the world. Without her, they wouldn't have seen through the Magnolia

training you gave us—if it weren't for that, who knows how many of us would be out of commission, or

gave us Vitaflux... You're

lives, Instructor. You're

"We're your soldiers. Always."

on any pharmacy shelf, but everyone knew about the legendary life-saving drug. When the soldiers opened

even buy. To receive it, free of charge, from

alone that a single capsule could mean the difference between life

was the first to recognize it. The moment he saw the pill, he knew exactly what it

Vitaflux in his life. Even his family, with all their resources, couldn't get their hands on a single dose -yet Carmichael had casually handed out over

Who was she, really?

Carmichael planned to slip quietly away from the base, hoping not to disturb

out the door when she ran right into Hastings,

What are you doing here?" She looked at him,