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

do anything. As usual, we were so

something was draining

smile when they threw me onto the

of the hit. I

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very existence. They could

my feet again,

rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing my

because you lost

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

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

streaked down

stay far from him!” she

I

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

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

minions

laid on the floor for minutes,

wasn’t going to cry, I

my face by the

Slowly I stood up

had missed a class

It’s Lyra after all. She has the school at her

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

are red and swollen, with scratches

and traced the bruise

whenever Theo was having

and fixed my clothes so that nobody

Then the bell rang

I need to still get to

go home and

positive that I saw all the

jaws were etched tightly as though they were angry

with them. Maybe he had a different

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about anything that

a few minutes ago that Eros

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

caught Lyra’s smirk and her