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

couldn’t do anything. As usual, we were so

felt like something was draining our

smile when they threw me onto the

the hit. I curled to the floor,

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girls who hated my very existence. They could kill me and no one

feet again, and

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

only, because you lost yours.” I

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

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

down my

stay

she kicked my legs and I fell onto the hard floor

sob. Not to show that her actions were breaking me. “This is just a warning, she crouched to my level, pulling my hair

you’re trying to get my mate to notice you. I’ll kill you!” she promised and walked off with

minions

for minutes, and hours before

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

examine my face by

Slowly I stood up

missed a class

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

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 Lyra’s

traced the bruise from the

whenever Theo was having his “fun” with Lyra or

that nobody would see the

Then the bell rang

need to

to go home and hide from this cruel

the hallway to my next class, I was nearly positive that I saw all the three bybrids; Eros friends turned

jaws were etched tightly as though they were

with them. Maybe he had a

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

minutes ago that Eros knew I

off as I slipped into the next class. The teacher

caught Lyra’s smirk and