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 my

anything. As usual,

felt like something

flashed a wicked smile when they threw me onto

My body felt the impact of the hit. I curled to the

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my very existence. They could kill me and no one would

girls dragged me to my feet again, and Lyra came

it isn’t the rejected mate,”

only, because you

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

my face. She raised it and hit my face

down

stay far from him!”

I fell onto the hard floor

to sob. Not to show that her actions were breaking me. “This is just

that you’re trying to get my mate to notice you. I’ll kill you!”

minions

the floor for minutes, and hours before standing

numb. I wasn’t going to cry, I was done crying

examine my face by the mirror above

Slowly I stood up

knew I had missed a class

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

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

and traced the

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

fixed my clothes so that nobody would see the

Then the bell rang

to still

I just want to go home

nearly positive that I saw all

were etched tightly as though they were

Maybe he had a different

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about anything that happened

was just a few minutes ago

next class. The teacher barely took in my appearance and

Lyra’s smirk and