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 our

when they threw me onto the

the hit. I curled to the floor, curling

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hated my very existence. They could kill me and no

girls dragged me to my feet again, and Lyra came

it isn’t the rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing my jaw tightly. Her

because you lost yours.” I

and the next minute, my face was reeling

at my face. She raised it

streaked down my

and you will stay far from him!”

and I fell onto the hard floor

pain in my 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 my level,

you’re trying to get my mate to notice you. I’ll

minions

laid on the floor for

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

my face by the mirror above

Slowly I stood up

I had missed

one came to help me in the restroom is not a mystery. It’s Lyra after all. She has the school at her Beck and calls. Her mother; Luna

gone. Some stain of mascara and eyeliner smudged underneath and at the corners of my

cheeks are red and swollen, with scratches of dried blood from

my shirt slowly and traced the bruise

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

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

Then the bell rang

to

just want to go home

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

tightly as

with them. Maybe he had

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that happened to me. I

few minutes ago that Eros knew

as I slipped into the next class. The teacher barely took in my appearance and looked

Lyra’s smirk and her