After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 87

Chapter 87

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Chapter 87

Blaine stood, stunned. She stared at Nancy while her mind struggled to catch up with this revelation. Nancy was Liam’s mother?

She whipped her head around to Liam, who gave her a nervous sort of smile. He’d known all this time of ourse he’d known all this time! Why hadn’t they said a thing? Why the secrecy?

Ayla’s entire argument crumbled before her. She couldn’t argue there had been an affair when Liam’s own mother knew far more than she did. They’d likely been sharing the same rental, so she would know.

“Well, I…um…” Ayla stammered.

Nancy took a step toward her. “I’d ask that you leave. And try not to embarrass yourself further. Obviously, these rumors are false…wouldn’t you agree?”

Ayla swallowed, glancing around at the group of people now all staring at them. She cleared her voice and nodded. “Right, well…maybe I was a bit hasty…excuse me.’

She quickly turned and made her way to the door, half-jogging every other step. The room was quiet even after the door closed.

Nancy turned to the crowd. “Let us not let this ruin tonight. Tonight is about the foundation!” she announced. A murmur began to pick back up, the crowd doing their best to try not to stare and continue with their own conversations.

Elaine looked between Nancy and Liam, squinting as she tried to see the resemblance. “You…are related you.”

Liam chuckled. “Yeah…”

“And you kept it a secret,” Elaine said.

“We had our reasons,” Nancy replied as she stepped closer. “Ones I shall tell you later. But I do believe we have an event to finish?”

She motioned toward the stage.

Elaine closed her eyes briefly, trying to center herself. This was not something she’d expected to come out of tonight. But the event was still ongoing, and she needed to wrap things up here before dealing with this.

She turned to walk to the stage. Liam caught her arm. “Hey,” he said, letting go once she faced him. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you. I’ll explain it all after, okay?”

Elaine nodded. “Yeah, I just…wow.”

“I know.”

“Nancy is your mother.”

“She is.”

Elaine ran her fingers through her hair. “I was not expecting that.”

“I can tell,” Liam smirked. Then he nudged her arm. “Go on. Try not to stumble through your speech. We’ll talk more later.”

She nodded and walked up to the stage, climbing the steps to the platform. She still couldn’t believe it. Her mind was spinning. But she tried to switch her focus back to the foundation as she gave her prepared speech.

Chapter 87

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She’d had an entire thing planned, but standing here now, she kept it short. Giving her thank yous to her supporters and a brief explanation of what the foundation intended to do.

And after she was done, and Adrian came up to address the crowd next, Elaine sat down on the sidelines, Waiting.

By the time the event was wrapping up, she’d already handed off closings to Adrian, so she could go find am and Nancy. Counting up the donations could wait until tomorrow. Right now, she had something far more pressing on her mind.

Liam and Nancy were waiting just outside the doors for her, and before she could even get a word out, Nap spoke.

“Let’s go to dinner,” she prompted. “My treat.”