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

me,” I called to my

couldn’t do anything. As

like something was draining

wicked smile when

hit. I curled to the floor, curling in

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hated my very existence. They could

to my feet again, and Lyra

the rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing

because you lost

next minute, my face

She growled, baring her claws at my face. She raised it and hit my face

streaked down my

and you will stay far

legs and I fell onto the hard

the searing pain in my body. Everywhere hurts. I tried not to sob. Not to show that her

to get my mate to notice you.

minions

on the floor for minutes, and hours before

wasn’t going to cry, I was

my face by the mirror above the

Slowly I stood up

had missed a

restroom is not a mystery. It’s Lyra after all. She has the school at

was mostly gone. Some stain of mascara and eyeliner smudged underneath and at

are red and swollen, with scratches of dried blood from Lyra’s

traced the bruise from the

as nasty as the bruises I had before whenever Theo was having his “fun” with Lyra

face and fixed my clothes so that nobody would see the ugly scars on my

Then the bell rang

need to still get

go home and hide from this

I was nearly positive that I saw

jaws were etched tightly as though they

Maybe he

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care about anything that happened to me. I was nothing

a few minutes ago that Eros

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

Lyra’s smirk and her