The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 6

What did you say?” I asked, but he licked his lips.

“Don’t you think that skirt is too short for you to be walking around in?” he said, straightening his shoulders.

What? That is so random.

Why does he care if my skirt is too short? When did he start caring about my looks?

I was still deep in my confusion when I suddenly felt a hand touch my skirt pocket. Eros’s.

He pulled out my cellphone and began typing into it, without even asking for my pin number.

His phone rang once, then he canceled the call.

My eyes bulged from their sockets. What is he doing?

“Now, I have your number,” He grinned ***y and slowly pushed my phone into my palm

“See you some other time, Butter,”

Butter.

Then he is

gone.

I forced myself to breathe. My crush just took my number.

Eros just took my number!

“Yesssssssssssssssss!” I squealed, jumping into the air.

I turned to go back to class when I smelt them. My doom

Lyra and her minions.

My heartbeat accelerated.

“Eden!” Lyra hissed. Oh, no…. “You and I, need to talk,”

I gulped, looking around for an escape route. The hallway was empty and quiet.

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“Whats’up, Lyra?” I tried to be bold.

She signaled her four minions to grab me. The tall girls grabbed my arms and legs, digging their claws into my skin. They carried me roughly to the restroom.

Lyra trailed menacingly behind

I called to

anything. As usual,

felt like something was draining our

when they threw me onto the

felt the impact of the hit. I curled to the

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with five girls who hated my very existence. They

feet again,

rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing my jaw tightly.

because you

minute, my face was reeling backward from

claws at my face. She raised it and hit my face

streaked down

stay far from

kicked my legs and I

in my body. Everywhere hurts. I tried not to sob. Not to show that her actions were breaking me. “This is just a warning, she

see that you’re trying to get my mate to notice you. I’ll kill you!” she promised and walked off with

minions

on the floor for minutes,

I was

examine my face by the mirror above

Slowly I stood up

knew I had missed a class or

a mystery. It’s Lyra after all. She has the school at her Beck and calls.

at my reflection, noticing that my make-up was mostly gone. Some stain of mascara and eyeliner smudged underneath and

swollen, with scratches of

the bruise from the impact of the

nasty as the bruises I had before whenever Theo was having his

that nobody would see the ugly scars

Then the bell rang

I need to still

home and hide

class, I was nearly positive that I saw all the three bybrids; Eros friends

jaws were etched tightly as though they were angry

wasn’t with them. Maybe

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couldn’t possibly care about anything that happened to me. I was nothing

minutes ago that Eros knew I

as I slipped into the next class. The teacher barely

caught Lyra’s smirk and