After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 293

Chapter 293

Lucas froze. He heard the words yet they still didn’t seem to register. He opened his mouth but nothing

came out.

She was poisoned?

It didn’t make sense.

Elaine walked past him, and for one horrible moment he thought she was just going to leave with that revelation hanging in the air. She did not leave. Elaine went to her car and opened it up, grabbing the folder from where she tucked it away.

She turned back to Lucas, who was facing her now. Still stunned speechless. She took a step forward.

“I was poisoned,” she repeated, tapping her fingers along the folder, debating. Yet this wasn’t something Lucas could refuse. The evidence was damning. “It’s not that I was simply not strong enough, I…”

“I never thought you were,” Lucas muttered. He might have blamed her at the time, but he’d been caught up in grief. Never had he honestly throught she was weak as the reason they’d lost the baby. He swallowed thickly. “Show me.”

Elaine stepped forward, holding the folder out to him. “It was a drug. An experiment.”

Lucas took a shaky breath and took the folder. He opened it, thumbing through the number of pages. An experiment? But…

His gaze caught a name on the page. “Ayla.”

“She swapped them out. My vitamins for whatever…whatever this was,” Elaine said and gestured uselessly to the papers.

Lucas‘ hands were shaking now. “Preliminary study of Fountain of Youth Experient.”

“I was their second subject.” Elaine hated how the words sounded spoken aloud. Wrong and violating. She held herself.

“What was the experiment for?”

“I don’t know.” Elaine shook her head. All it said was Fountain of Youth but there was no details about what it was supposed to do.

Lucas gripped the papers until they crinkled. “And you agreed to–”

“No!” Elaine snapped, cutting him off. “I was tricked. I didn’t want Ayla to replace my vitamins, I had no idea they had been. I’d been taking this for weeks and never knew.”

Lucas exhaled slow. Inhaled. He read aloud. “Subject 002 showed improved signs of energy and health. This was quickly contrasted within the fourth week when the subject suffered a miscarriage.”

Elaine said nothing.

“Dosage was terminated promptly, though signs of decline began in the following month. Study of the subject was withdrawn after the conclusion that the experiment was a failure.” Lucas looked up at

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Elaine. “Someone was using you as an experiment.”

“It’s what I found,” Elaine mumbled. She had reason to suspect this was also the why behind her terminal illness. Though she didn’t say that aloud.

Lucas closed the folder, looking at the imprint on the cover. LSL. The lab he himself had only recently been looking into. The lab that was potentially behind the creation of Rage. Though that left another question still on the table. His thumb traced the cover briefly.

This folder was from the Last Stand Labs.

Lucas looked up at her.

“How did you get this?”

Elaine knew the question was coming, and she also knew he wasn’t going to like the answer. “I stole it.”

“You stole it.”

She nodded. “I found the lab. The location is off the eastern border, deep in the pine forest. Rogue territory.”

He took another deep breath with another slow exhale, trying to stay calm. “How.”

“How did I find it?”

“How did you get inside?”

Elaine wiped her eyes, tears still staining her cheeks. “I walked in the front door. They didn’t stop me. I managed to sneak past their initial security and get into their records. That’s where I found the folder.”

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