After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 232

Chapter 232

Ayla trembled slightly as she saw Kaine and Lucia. Her vision swam red at the sight of them, but she held herself back by a thread. They might have sent Lucas to die, but they also knew of her involvement.

She had to play this carefully. Or, better still, no be noticed at all. It was too late to leave. People would notice the door opening if she slipped out, so she remained at the back of the room.

Watching.

Elaine didn’t understand immediately. She’d seen these two before, surely. Knew them as their own respectable CEOs. They were involved with Ayla’s foundation, weren’t they?

She glanced at Harriet, whose eyes were wide with recognition. “Kaine and Lucia…” she mumbled.

Their names certainly familiar. Elaine looked back at the pair, at their angered faces. A scowl marring both their expressions.

“Beta Kaine and Lucia,” Lucas said, gesturing to the two of them. “Multi–millionaires and owners of your own corporations here in the Wind Wolf Pack. Kaine…I remember speaking to you about my new policy some time ago. You were quite…angered by it.”

Kaine almost growled, his wolf bristling. “Yes, but I would never–”

“Oh, you would. And you did. That is why you’re here.” Lucas turned to the Elder Council as he held up his hand. Kyle rushed over and placed a manila folder into it. Lucas strode up to the podium and tossed the folder onto its surface.

“There,” he said. “All the information you need connecting these two too the crime. The jet was licensed under one of Kaine’s operations, utilizing a fake name to try and conceal itself. And the pilots, the pair of them, were identified as two gammas from the eastside. Workers under Lucia’s payroll.”

Lucas turned to Kaine and Lucia.

“Anything to say for yourselves?” Lucas asked, tilting his head.

Kaine swallowed. “Look…it wasn’t us! I was happy to discuss the new policy with you. To come to an agreement! Yes, I was angry but I wouldn’t have done something as outrageous as this!”

“You trying to shift the blame to me?” Lucia snapped, glaring at him. “You’re the one who suggested we use your old jet. You never fly it in anymore anyway.‘

Kaine actually did growl that time. “How dare you!”

Lucas turned to the Council. “I think we have additional evidence right in front of us,” he said.

Elaine stared at them in utter disbelief. These two powerful CEOS bickering like children over the fact they’d plotted together to murder Lucas and her, yet…

“You had no reason to take me down with you,” Elaine said. Kaine and Lucia turned to her. “You changed my flight, made sure I was on the jet with Lucas, yet you had no motive for my demise.”

The two of them hesitated, then Kaine cleared his throat. “Exactly! No motive at all. It was Ayla who put us up to it.”

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Silence.

Elaine couldn’t even say she was surprised at this latest attempt to ruin her life. Though it was the fact that Lucas had been brought into it that puzzled her. Ayla wouldn’t do a thing to harm Lucas.

“Lies!” Ayla cried out as she burst forward from the back of the room. She wouldn’t tolerate this slander. “I would never hurt Lucas! Not in a million years. You two little lairs!”

“You wanted Elaine dead!” Lucia argued. The gathered crowd in the seats around the chamber gasped.

“Elaine, not Lucas! You’re the ones who tried to drag him into it as well!” Ayla shouted.

Lucas took a breath. Held it. Forgot to exhale. He stared at Ayla like she was someone he didn’t even recognize. She seemed a totally different person. Or perhaps her mask had finally slipped in his presence enough for him to notice.

He took a step back.

The room felt like it was spinning yet standing still in the same moment. He heard a ringing in his ears.

Nothing else registered in his mind except for Ayla, standing there, with her eyes wide and wild. And those terrible words upon her tongue.

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