After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 263

Chapter 263

Lucas sat in his car before the manor. A house he hadn’t visited in a long time. He took a deep breath. In and out.

Yesterday, he’d sent off that unknown drug to the labs to be tested. None of the officers had known what it was, and that unknown made him nervous. He’d kept the bag. The acidic smell of it filled the air in his car. His nose wrinkled.

Flecks of that red powder clung to the inside of the bag. Lucas needed to know what it was. The lab results wouldn’t come in for at least a few days, he wanted to know sooner. So here he was.

He stepped out of the car, looking up at his father’s house.

Even if Luther didn’t know what this was, surely he could offer Lucas some advice. Something concrete he could use to help him with this rogue situation.

He walked up to the house, knocking lightly. It wasn’t his father that answered, but a woman. She held the door open. This wasn’t Lucas‘ mother.

“Where is my father?”

“The sitting room,” she said quietly, her voice soft and subdued.

Lucas narrowed his eyes at her. Another young woman his father brought into this house. He wasn’t surprised.

He said nothing else to her as he walked down the hall and came to stand at the threshold of the sitting room. His father was sitting before a fire, hunched over in the chair with a blanket about his shoulders.

His face was drawn and pale.

Lucas felt a flicker of surprise. His father was usually such an intimidating man, but he looked worse for

wear.

“Luther,” Lucas said, stepping into the room.

The older man looked up. “Ah. Lucas. To what do I owe this visit?” he asked.

“You’re looking unwell,” Lucas mused.

Luther chuckled softly. “Have you come only to insult me?”

“Would it surprise you if I did?”

“No.”

Lucas crossed over to sit opposite his father. It was warm in this room, yet Luther still had a blanket over his shoulders.

“Cynthia,” Luther called.

That tirnid woman who’d opened the door came into the room. “Yes?”

“Fetch us some tea.”

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“Tea?” Lucas asked as Cynthia scurried to the kitchen. “Since when do you drink tea?”

“Since now.”