After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 127

Maybe the time was drawing near to tell Harriet.

Yet she still couldn’t.

Not now.

Elaine only nodded, with a smile, before turning to leave.

Thirty minutes later, she was walking into the New Dawn building. Someone was at the counter in the front, and several others were in the waiting room. A busy day. The receptionist seemed to have it handled.

She walked toward the staff entrance, right as Adrian was walking out. He stopped abruptly.

Elaine thought, for a moment, he might ask about what happened. Instead, he said, “Good, you’re here. There are some decisions that need to be made for moving forward with the long–term housing units.”

She sighed, thankful this wasn’t going to turn into a conversation about Matthew. She nodded. “Sure. Let’s take a look at those.”

The two of them stepped into the main office. Elaine sat down, Adrian across from her. He slid over a folder.

“The recent anonymous donation has left us with an opportunity.”

“I thought we spent that money,” Elaine said.

Adrian nodded. “Yes, but it also means the original sum we were saving up for the units now has no place to go. We have options. Our growth has not stabilized as of yet, and I do believe we should be talking in the next two years or so, opening up a second location in a different pack territory.”

Elaine’s jaw tightened. Two years. She might not even have two months. On a slow exhale, she managed to contain her outer reaction, though she could feel the twist in her gut. Guilt? Fear?

She never knew anymore.

“Right…of course,” she said with a simple nod. “What are you thinking?”

“The East River pack. They have higher reports of homelessness among their lower–ranking wolves,” Adrian said, tapping the section on the page he was thinking of.

Elaine looked it over. The statistics were there. It seemed like it would be the logical next step after they’d solidified their position here. Yet it was a direction she’d never get to see. Or experience.

It made her chest ache.

“Of course it’d be another run–in with the council and you’d have to get Alpha Ryder’s approval, but I think it is worth looking into. Of course, not until our numbers prove New Dawn is actually aiding the community.”

“Right. I like it. Keep looking into it. When the numbers are right, we can move forward,” Elaine said.

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