After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 44

Chapter 44

+15 Bonus

1

Chapter 44

Now Lucas did it all himself.

His grip on the steering wheel tightened. It’s late enough that all the servants are likely gone. He hadn’t ordered them to stay up.

Slowly, he got out of the car. And headed to the door.

The lights were on. A small mercy, or so he thought. He moved toward the kitchen.

I’m dying.

Those two words repeated in his mind. It couldn’t be true. Elaine couldn’t have been telling the truth. Could she…?

Lucas recalled, just barely, two months back, he’d asked his beta to send for her medical report. He’d never read them. Where had they gone? Perhaps…

Just maybe she wasn’t lying. Maybe he should hear her out.

“You’re back.”

The words startled him out of his thoughts and he looked up. Ayla sat at one of the barstools, a tub of ice cream in her hand. She wore her nightgown, a simple thing. White. She’d made herself right at home.

“It’s late,” Lucas said, glancing toward the clock on the stove. It was only eight. “You shouldn’t be up.”

“I was waiting for you. You’re back early,” Ayla said. “Did something happen?”

Lucas exhaled, grabbed himself a bottle of water from the fridge, and moved toward the living room to sit down. Ayla brought her ice cream over with her, plopping herself down right next to him, legs curled up

beneath her.

“You seem upset,” Ayla said, scooting closer. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine.”

“No you’re not. Tell me what happened. I want to make it better…”

Lucas scrubbed his hand over his face. “Elaine–”

“Of course,” Ayla said. “It’s always Elaine, isn’t it? She makes you so miserable, Lucas…”

He glanced sideways at her.

Ayla cleared her throat, dipping her spoon back in the tub. “Continue.”

Lucas leaned his head against the back of the couch. “She just…I can’t figure her out. I thought I knew her.”