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.

+

“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

me,” I called to my

do anything. As

something was draining our

wicked smile when

body felt the impact of the hit. I curled to the floor, curling

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very existence. They could kill me and

my feet again, and Lyra came into

isn’t the rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing

because you

next minute, my face

baring her claws at my face. She raised it and

down

and you will stay far from him!” she said,

kicked my legs and I fell onto the hard

bit back the searing pain 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 crouched to my level,

to get my mate to notice

minions

the floor for minutes, and hours

cry, I was done crying

face by the mirror above the

Slowly I stood up

I had missed

one came to help me in the restroom is not a mystery. It’s Lyra after all. She has the school at her

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

and swollen, with scratches of dried blood from

lifted my shirt slowly and traced the bruise from the impact

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

fixed my clothes so that nobody would see

Then the bell rang

to still get

to go home and hide

next class, I was nearly positive that I saw

as though they were angry about

wasn’t with them. Maybe

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

few minutes ago that Eros knew

off as I slipped into the next class. The teacher barely took in my appearance

Lyra’s smirk and her