After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 207

Chapter 207

Liam paced the lobby of the New Dawn Foundation. It’d been a week. An entire week and not a single word from Elaine.

Radio silence the first day would have made sense. She was settling into her hotel, getting into her routine, and the time zone differences had to be considered….

But it’d been a week.

She hadn’t tried to call or text or even leave an email. Liam had tried to call the event center, but they’d yet to get back to him about whether she’d shown up or not. It was almost as if after she’d gotten on that plane, she’d simply vanished.

A thousand different terrible things circulated in his mind. What if the plane crashed? What if she’d been kidnapped after she landed? Had she forgotten her meds? What if she was…?

That last thought sent a cold dread through him and he didn’t even dare to finish it.. They’d thought it would be safer for her in England for a week while he sorted things out with Ayla, but now he’d been so worried Ayla was the last thing on his mind.

He continued to pace.

“You’re going to wear a hole in the floor,” Nancy said as she walked around the counter. “You need to try and relax a bit.”

“Relax?” Liam snapped. “Elaine is gone! She’s been gone for a week and no one knows where she is!”

“We can’t be certain of that yet.” Nancy knew it was a useless endeavor to try and get Liam to calm himself She was beyond worried as well, though she was better at hiding it. “Look, her plane is due to come in today. She’ll step out of the airport and you’ll feel so foolish for having worried”

Liam can his fingers through his hair. “I hope you’re right.”

“I usually am,” Nancy replied, then looked out the main doors as a car pulled up out front. “It looks as if Harriet is here. I know she’ll planned on picking Elaine up. Why don’t you go with her?”

Liam glanced outside then back at his mother. “You planned this.”

“You’ve been worried all week.”

He sighed heavily then nodded, turning to grab his jacket before heading out the door and down the steps. He jogged up to the side of the curb and opened the door

“Fancy seeing you, stranger,” Harriet greeted. “Get in! Let’s go get Elaine.”

Carn slet into the passenger seat, pulling the door closed with him “Has she texted you at all?”

hope but I didn’t really expect her too. She’s bad at that sort of thing anyway, let alone with the stress

travel and being in a different country,” Harriet replied.

Han puiled up his pltor, looking through the dozens of texts he’d sem Elaine

Dig yirive safely? How was the flight!

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Morning from Wind Wolf. How are you today?

Hey, you ignoring me?

Getting worried, text me when you can.

Are you okay? Please respond when you get this.

His jaw clenched. Surely Elaine wouldn’t have simply forgotten to reply to his texts of concern. He exhaled slowly.

“Yeah…always bad at texting back,” Liam mumbled and turned his phone off. He looked out the window and continued doing so until they reached the airport.

It wasn’t a busy day, but people bustled in and out of the main terminal. Liam and Harriet had found a place to park and walked to the security exit, where Elaine should be coming out.

Liam checked the boards, noting her flight should have landed by now. He looked toward the gates.

“Shoul be here,” he said.

Harriet folded her hands behind her back. “Any minute.”

Elaine never arrived.

Three hours later, they left the airport Liam didn’t want to, but the security had started to give them both weird looks.

Hos paw dearlied and he looked out the window. “She should have been on that fight

and are deer the gate Bul Barriet trailed off, une ase coiling in her gu. “What d Avta.”

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