After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 148

Chapter 148

Blaine laid on the bed, staring up at the ceiling. She didn’t know how long she’d been here now. The curtains had been drawn. The room dark. And she?

She was now cuffed to the bedpost.

Ruth had seen fit to properly lock her up after the little escape attempt. And now she could more clearly hear the guards shuffling around just outside the door. It was as if they were letting her know she had no escape.

It didn’t stop her from trying.

Elaine kept twisting her wrist in the cuff, trying to wiggling it free of the unmoving iron. There was no give. She recalled that it was possible to slip these things but it required dislocating her thumb to do so.

That had felt impossible at first, though more and more like an option she should consider.

She sat up in the bed, looking at her wrist. Her other hand was free but useless since there was no way to get the lock undone. Her gaze shifted over to the tray of food still on the nightstand.

It’d long since gone cold, but was still there. A fork among the utensil on the tray.

Elaine leaned forward and grabbed the fork with her free hand. It was the only thing she really had at this point. She tried to use one of the prongs to slip into the lock of the cuff.

It was a long shot, and she’d never picked a lock before, but she was desperate at this point. Anything to not have to dislocate her thumb to get free.

Just as she was shifting the prong around in the lock, the door opened. She dropped the fork instantly. It clattered to the ground as Walter stepped in. He eyed her attempted escape with a raise brow.

“Tsk. Again?” he asked, walking over to picked up the fork and take it to the other side of the room. “There is no getting out of this, Elaine.”

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e fork on the dresser.

“Father,” she begged. “You cannot do this to me! Selling me off into a marriage? This is kidnapping! I don’t want this!”

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