After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 149

Continued to try and call upon her wolf. Yet it still would not respond.

“Let me go!” Elaine snapped, managing to stomp her heel down on one of the guard’s toes. He inhaled sharply.

“Stop fighting,” he growled. “You’re making this harder for yourself.”

Elaine refused to listen to that. They were taking her toward the front door. Transporting her. Panic set in Shehad/ no idea where they’d be taking her, which meant no one else who came looking would know either.

She couldn’t let them take her, and yet, she couldn’t get free.

“Oh, quiet down,” Ruth’s voice cut through the air like a knife.

The guards paused, and so did Elaine as she looked over at her stepmother.

“You’re not being sent to slaughter,” Ruth approached, one had at her hip. She looked thoroughly unimpressed yet at the same time immensely pleased. “As you already know, this is all because of your own actions.”

“You are the ones you got yourselves into debt! That is not my fault!” Elaine argued.

“Isn’t it? Lucas was helping pay our way during your marriage. Than you selfishly decided to divorce him, with no consideraton for your family.”

“Like how you all have been just oh so considerate of me,” Elaine said sarcastically.

Ruth didn’t pick up on the joke. “Exactly! I raised you as my own child and this is how you repay me? Disgraceful! But getting Matthew sent to prison for the second time? That was the final straw!”

“He deserved it!” Elaine yelled.

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lapped her. Right across the face.

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head snapped to the side, a gasp escaping her lips. Her cheek stung.

“Not another word, you ungrateful brat.” Ruth seethed, breathing heavily. She inhaled sharply, straightening up again to collect herself. “You will finally be doing something good for this family.”

A large truck was waiting. The back door hauled open, a beta ushering the guards forward, lowering down to help get Elaine inside.