After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 216

Chapter 216

The following day, Liam was back at the foundation. He and Kyle had continued their investigations but had yet to find anything conclusive.

“So they truly have no idea where the plane went?” Nancy asked, walking around the meeting table. New Dawn was quiet today. She had seen to it that they had the meeting room to themselves.

“It’s as if it just vanished,” Liam replied. He had a hard time believing it, yet there was no evidence that the jet had ever reached England. It had left the airport, then vanished over the ocean.

Nancy sat heavily at the table, drumming her fingers along the wood as she tried to think. “Wouldn’t a radio signal have pinged their location?”

“The radios shut off soon after they took off. No one has any idea where it even went. They could be anywhere over the ocean right now,” Liam replied.”

“Surely the Fangshire Pack territory would have noticed a missing plane…” she mused aloud.

“Not exactly, from what I’ve gathered. Edward, the Fangshire wolf, we received word from him that the jet they sent to pick up Lucas was never boarded,” Kyle said, sitting down across the table from Liam. “I should have called to confirm the flight sooner. Maybe if I had…”

“It’s not your fault,” Nancy muttered, even if she knew it might have saved Lucas from boarding the wrong plane. “This had to have been planned.”

“The problem is we have no idea who did it.” Liam walked over to the board, looking over the sparse information they had now.

“You sure it wasn’t Ayla?” Harriet asked as she stepped into the room, bringing with her a briefcase.

“I’m sure.”

“How can you be?”

Liam turned to her. “Because Lucas and Elaine were both on the same plane. Ayla wouldn’t have done anything to hurt Lucas. So she can’t be involved.”

Harriet sat down. “I’ve alerted the officials. The WWPD. The Alpha Elite. Officers are on the case. But word is going to spread quickly that the Alpha President never made it back from his trip. This could potentially spark a panic in the public. You’d think there’d be more security…”

“Lucas insists on low security. He likes to keep a low profile,” Kyle said.

“Of course he does.”

“We need to find them quickly,” Liam interrupted.

Suddenly the door snapped back on its hinges, and Adrian stood there. “Walter and Ruth are here.”

The entire ronin went quiet. Then everyone was on their feet.

“What?” Liam demauled

Kyle was already making his way to the door “Come again?”

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“They just entered the building, claiming something about mourning and–” Adrian began but Liam shoved past him.

The Alpha half jogged half sprinting down the hallway and into the lobby. Sure enough, there they were. Both wore all black, Ruth holding a handfull of tissues. She dabbed her cheeks, sniffling.

“Get out,” Liam growled. “You two are flirting with death by being here–”

“We have every right to be here,” Ruth stated, lowering the tissue. “See, by Right of Mourning. Our daughter is dead. Our banishment is set aside.”

Liam’s wolf snarled, and he felt the urge to shift and tear them both apart. “When I get done with the both of you–”

Harriet came running up behind him. “Wait, Liam. Hold on!”

Liam glared over his shoulder at her. “What?”

“There is a law pertaining to this.”

“Excuse me?”

“It’s called The Right of Mourning. It allows those who have had a death in the family to return to their packs, if for a short amount of time, in order to settle the dead one’s assets,” Harriet explained. “Too bad for them… Elaine isn’t dead,” Liam said, turning back to Walter and Ruth.

“We heard about the missing plane. Over the Atlantic,” Walter explained. “There are no reports of that craft ever reaching its destination. Gone over the ocean…come now, we all know what that means.