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 Wolf,

couldn’t do anything. As usual, we

something

when they threw me onto the

impact of the hit. I curled to the floor, curling in

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was alone with five girls who hated my very existence. They could kill me and no one

dragged me to my feet again, and Lyra came into

well, well if it isn’t the rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing my

only, because you lost

in anger, and the next minute, my

my face. She raised it

streaked down

mine now, and you will stay far from him!” she

my legs and I fell onto the hard

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

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

minions

floor for minutes, and hours before standing

I was done crying for people who didn’t value

my face by the mirror above

Slowly I stood up

missed a

to help me in the restroom is not a mystery. It’s Lyra after all. She has the school at her Beck

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

are red and swollen, with

traced the bruise from the impact of

I had before whenever Theo was having his

my face and fixed my clothes so that nobody would see

Then the bell rang

to still get to

I just want to go home and hide from

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

etched tightly as

wasn’t with them. Maybe he had a different

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

minutes ago that Eros

as I slipped into the next class. The

Lyra’s smirk