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

I called to my

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

something was draining our

wicked smile when

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

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five girls who hated my very existence. They

me to my feet

the rejected mate,” Lyra

only, because you lost yours.”

next minute, my face was reeling backward

my face. She raised it and

down

mine now, and you will stay far from

legs and I fell onto the

show that her actions

to notice you. I’ll

minions

the floor for minutes, and hours before

cry, I was done crying for people who didn’t value

examine my face by the mirror above the

Slowly I stood up

knew I had missed

no one came 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

swollen, with scratches of dried blood from

shirt slowly and traced the bruise from the impact of

Theo was having his “fun” with Lyra

face and fixed my clothes so that nobody would

Then the bell rang

to still

home and hide from this cruel

class, I was nearly positive that I saw all the

tightly as though they

wasn’t with them. Maybe he had a

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care about anything that happened to me. I was nothing

a few minutes ago that Eros knew I

off as I slipped into the next class. The teacher barely took in

Lyra’s smirk and