After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 239

Chapter 239

She looked down at his hands, gesturing. “What do you have?”

Lucas‘ gaze followed her focus. He unfolded his fingers and revealed the golden wedding band resting on his palm.

“Oh.”

“It’s our…my old ring,” Lucas said, once more twisting it between his fingers.

Elaine went to lean against the tree not far from the swing, looking out over the water. “Quite the place to come and contemplate our marriage.”

“We had no idea how any of this would end up. All those years ago.”

She could almost look back at it with a fond smile as he mentioned it. “So many plans.”

“So many dreams,” Lucas said, before closing his fingers around the ring. Then he slipped it into his pocket.

“Dreams?” Elaine asked. “Here I didn’t think you had any.”

Lucas chuckled softly. “Not many, no. Aside from being a good Alpha.”

“All I had wanted was to be a good wife. A good Luna.”

“You were the best. At both,” Lucas said, glancing sideways at her, then back to the ocean. “But that is not the purpose of me being here.”

“Then why?”

“I was just thinking about Ayla.” Lucas cleared his throat as if holding back some sort of emotion. “I still find it so hard to believe. I can’t imagine the young, innocent girl I once knew…”

“She was never so innocent,” Elaine said firmly.

“I should have protected you better.”

Her eyes widened in surprise, and she turned to face Lucas as he stood up. He noticed her expression and rubbed the back of his neck.

“L…I mean it, Elaine. I should have protected you. I had no idea what Ayla was capable of but looking back, well, it seems so obvious. I was such a fool, all these years,” Lucas muttered. He didn’t seem proud to say it, not in the slightest.

“Hindsight’s a bitch,” Elaine muttered.