After She's Terminal The Alpha Regrets (Elaine and Lucas) novel Chapter 92

Chapter 92

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Matthew returned home within the hour. His car sputtered to a stop outside the home he’d grown up in, not far less cared for than it used to. Money had been tight lately. He got out, clutching his arm still as he

ran up to the front door.

Just inside, Ruth was in the kitchen while Walter sat at a table with his laptop. Both looked up at him.

Ruth spotted the way he held his arm and rushed over.

“Matthew!” she cried. “Oh, my poor boy, whatever happened to you?”

“Elaine beat me!” Matthew replied, allowing his mother to take his arm and inspect it. “I was trying to buy

new clothes, that I desperately need, and she stopped me and beat me for it!”

“What?” Ruth exploded in her anger. Her cheeks reddened with anger. “That impudent girl! First sending

you to that awful prison for no reason. Now this? She is a terror to this family!”

Walter stood up slowly from the table.

Matthew sniffled. “She is! I was only minding my own business. She hurt me! Beat me!”

“I’ll have her head!” Ruth snapped.

“She used to be such a good child,” Walter said, shaking his head. “Whatever happened?”

Ruth walked over to Walter, taking his arm. “She isn’t that little girl anymore. Look at what she’s done to Matthew! We can’t afford a trip to the hospital. What if he’s broken his arm?”

Walter sighed. “Then we need to confront her.”

“Exactly!” Ruth said, striding back toward the kitchen. “We will make her see the wrong of her actions.”

The three arrived at Harriet’s that evening. Ruth was still fuming with anger, but what she believed was a righteous anger. Matthew lingered behind them, his arm in a sling though it wasn’t broken.

He cradled it like it was.

Just a sprain, no doubt.

Walter moved ahead of his family, knocking on the door with such force it was more of a pound. Elaine was the one who answered, pulling it open. She spotted her family and immediately tried to close it again but Walter’s hand shot out and stopped the door.

“Elaine.”