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

anything. As usual, we were

felt like something

when

body felt the impact of the hit. I curled to

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

girls dragged me to my feet again, and Lyra came into

rejected mate,” Lyra said, grabbing

only, because you lost yours.”

anger, and the next minute,

my face. She raised it and

down my

stay far from him!” she said, hitting my

and I fell

my body. Everywhere hurts. I tried not to sob. Not to show that her actions were breaking me.

that you’re trying to get my mate to notice you.

minions

for minutes, and hours

I wasn’t going to cry, I was

to examine my face by the mirror above

Slowly I stood up

knew I had missed a class or

Lyra after all. She has the school

my reflection, noticing that my make-up was mostly gone. Some stain of mascara and eyeliner smudged underneath and

swollen, with scratches of dried blood from Lyra’s

lifted my shirt slowly and traced the bruise

I had before whenever Theo was having his “fun” with Lyra or some other girl.

clothes so that nobody would see the ugly scars on

Then the bell rang

I need to still get to

just want to go home and hide from

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

as though they were

them. Maybe he had a

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the hybrids couldn’t possibly care about anything that happened to

a few minutes ago that Eros knew I

next class. The teacher

Lyra’s smirk and her minions