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

anything. As usual,

like something was draining our

flashed a wicked smile when

body felt the impact of the hit.

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five girls who hated my very existence. They could kill me and no

dragged me to my feet

isn’t the rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing my jaw tightly. Her minions

because you lost

blazed in anger, and the next minute, my face was reeling backward from a

claws at my face. She raised it and hit my

down

stay far from

and I fell

my body. Everywhere hurts. I tried not to sob. Not to show that

see that you’re trying to get my mate to notice you. I’ll

minions

the floor for

felt numb. I wasn’t going to cry, I

by the mirror above the

Slowly I stood up

missed a

restroom is not a mystery. It’s Lyra after

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

swollen, with scratches of dried blood

my shirt slowly and traced the bruise from the impact

the bruises I had before whenever Theo was having his “fun” with Lyra or some

that nobody would see the ugly

Then the bell rang

I need to still get

just want to go home and hide from this cruel

I walked down the hallway to my next class, I was nearly positive that I saw all the three

jaws were etched tightly as though they were

Maybe he

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possibly care about anything that happened to me. I was

was just a few minutes ago that Eros

next class.

Lyra’s smirk and