After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 231

Chapter 231

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Walter and Ruth both froze.

She’d just been about to deliver her main argument on why Elaine’s estates should be handed to her and Walter when the main doors had opened. She was still stunned. Her jaw fell open.

“Rumors, yes….we all believed in them,” Ruth managed, swallowing thickly as she stepped forward. “Oh, my dear little Elaine, my one and only daughter… you’re alive! How wonderful–”

“Don’t. Don’t you even start with me,” Elaine snapped, cutting her off. This ploy of hers wasn’t going to work. Not again. Elaine had never bought into this act that Ruth seemed so fond of putting on.

Everyone else had for years. Only until recently, that is. Elaine was certain no one would buy into this now after what they’d tried to do to her.

“You came here upon learning I went missing so you could steal my assets and sell them for profit,” Elaine accused, stepping forward. “Well, I’m not dead. And now you have no right to be in this pack anymore.”

“But we….I… that is not what we were trying to do! We were trying to secure your legacy with your passing, everyone said you were gone–” Ruth stammered.

“You didn’t even wait. Didn’t send out any search party. Simply assumed I was gone after a day and came crawling in here to claim everything that was mine. You wanted to profit off of my supposed death.”

Elaine turned to the Council then.

“And you all were going to go along with it!” she accused.

“Your plane crashed two weeks ago. No one could survive two weeks on open ocean–” Elder Maria began.

“Lucas and I weren’t on open ocean. We’d crashed near an island and survived two weeks by ourselves,” Elaine said.

It was then that Ayla slipped into the room, remaining the back but watching the proceedings closely. 1

“With a crazy pilot driven to kill us on that same island,” Lucas chimed in. “I was mortally wounded and could have died there. None of you sought to send search parties?”

Byron adjusted his tie. “We sent several but it was the open ocean with no direction to locate you. It was quite impossible.”

“Was it? Because we were found,” Lucas said.

The Elders went quiet.

“How did you survive?” Maria asked. “How did you return?”

Elaine glanced sideways at Lucas before focusing back on the Elders. “The jet crash–landed in the ocean. The stewardess was killed, Lucas and I were the only ones to survive.

“But it hadn’t been an accident. The pilots had sabotaged the plane. They were trying to jump out and

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save themselves but we caught them in the act. One survived the crash with us and hunted us on that island.”

A gasp rippled through the gathered crowd. Elder Byron’s brow raised in surprise.

“Hunted you?” the Elder asked.

“That’s right. He tried to kill us. He managed to stab Lucas before we could take him down. Lucas…he almost died.” Elaine looked over at him.

He had a serious look on his face, consumed in the case presented to the Elders. He did not look at her.

“We managed to acquire a radio and got into contact with my Beta, Kyle. And Alpha Liam,” Lucas added. “The two of them secured our approximate location, an island far from the coast, before coming to find us.”

Walter stared at Elaine. She wanted to say there was perhaps pride in his eyes, but maybe that was assuming too much of him.

Elaine shook her head, trying to dismiss the thought.