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

called to

anything. As usual,

like something was draining our

wicked smile when they threw me onto

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

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girls who hated my very existence. They could kill

my feet again, and Lyra came into

well if it isn’t the rejected mate,”

because you lost

minute, my face was reeling

growled, baring her claws at my

streaked down my

will stay far from him!” she said, hitting my face

legs and I

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

mate to notice you.

minions

on the floor for minutes, and

numb. I wasn’t going to cry, I

to examine my face by the

Slowly I stood up

had missed a class or

to help me in the restroom is not a mystery. It’s Lyra after

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

with scratches of dried blood

lifted my shirt slowly and traced the bruise from the impact

bruises I had before whenever Theo was having his

fixed my clothes so that nobody would see the ugly

Then the bell rang

need to still

I just want to go home and hide

nearly positive that I saw all the three bybrids; Eros friends turned their

etched tightly as though they

Maybe he had a

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possibly care about anything that happened to me. I

minutes ago that Eros knew

into the next class. The teacher barely took in my appearance and looked

caught Lyra’s smirk