The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 80

I froze in my tracks, my heart pounding in my chest. I had assumed Eros hadn’t noticed my presence, but his voice broke

that illusion.

Slowly, I turned around. my eyes meeting his intense gaze.

Eros’s expression was stern, but there was a flicker of curiosity in his eyes. My mind raced, desperately searching for something to say, a plausible reason for my presence in his office, I opened my mouth to speak, but no words escaped.

I gulped when I heard the voice of King Eros. My heart began to beat so fast that it was galloping at the speed of a thousand horses,

I feared it would fall out of my mouth at this rate.

Slowly, very slowly, I turned around to see Eros looking at me.

He still had the marker in his hand and gave me a small smile before returning his attention to his file.

“Come here.” He said and went back to sit on his chair, the file in his hand.

I gulped nervously as I slowly made my way towards him. I reluctantly approached Eros’s desk, my eyes darting nervously around the room.

As I reached his side, he motioned for me to take a seat in the chair opposite him.

He pushed the chair in my direction without looking up and highlighted something with his marker.

“Are you going to speak at all?” He asked without looking at me. Isank into the plush chair and hoped that it would just swallow me whole.

“I.. I am sorry.. I muttered weakly. He flipped the page, took a pen, and scribbled something on the paper. Eros did not say anything and kept reading intently for the next five minutes that felt like an eternity to me.

There were a few files scattered along the table and a huge map of the kingdom strewn across the length of the desk

There were a few stains of teacups, showing that he had been really working hard on it, and a few pins that marked certain important spots.

“Do you not know that it is a bad habit to eavesdrop on someone” Eros asked as he pulled the cap off a pen with his mouth and threw it on the table as he took another pen to write something.

I thought of what to answer and could not come up with an answer. Luckily, I was spared from answering him when there was a knock on the door.

The servant I had met on my way to Eros’s office had returned with another round of tea.

“Yeah, come in. Eros muttered as he began pacing through the room while reading the file.

He flipped a few more pages and was done with the file as he tossed it on the table and picked another one

The file had landed on the edge of the table and it was going to fill down, so I stopped its fall. A few loose pages came out of the file, which I began pleking up

As I collected all the papers and put them in a stack, Eros’s voice reached me.

But it was not directed at me. “Eden will prepare the tea. You can leave.

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said to the servant who had just poured black tea into the cup and reached for the sugar. He didn’t say that to

work and it did not look like last night had affected him

had already been stupidly fantasizing about him, but he had been working all day and was still reading the files instead of lunging

upon seeing me again. Either

neither, and

left, glad to not

towards the tray. Placing the papers I had collected on the table,

“Sugar?”

curtly answered, and I put one

and poured the milk while reaching for a spoon to mix

the ceramic cup were the only noise in the big office. I would have argued with him that

moment.

supposed to obey him because his mark meant I was under his protection. I meekly

sip, and I watched his face for a change in expression, but there wasn’t any. He only placed the saucer

spilling it all over

cursed as I let out a startled cry

stained and the marker ink was spreading through the

weird

the desk and I felt scired of his anger at

“I am sorry, I didn’t mean

wrist and held it in front of me, My hair was askew as I tried to grab

me was firm.

stilled when my gaze met his and I quickly looked down,

didn’t do it purposely… I cried, but he simply plucked me away from the table

chair and my body had not even gotten time to react to his

saw that I was not moving, he went to the cupboard

would need this. He mumbled to himself before king off

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aid box.

he going to

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as he placed the box beside me and squatted down. Without saying a word, he took my hand in his and

was doing before he wiped away some of the dried bits off my hand and

that I had spilled most of the tea in my hands. He wiped it off and then grabbed an

was bent low, and his hair fell on his face, covering it partially. He

was not even the least bothered. How could this man stay so calm

I just become another plaything for

but I quickly swallowed it. The silence was too much to bear

me and be done

lying all over the place, the ink of the marker and pens spreading through even more papers, making it look

am sorry,

tried not to gasp when his hands softly caressed me, his fingers

hand was twice the size of mine, and he could squash it in

got up from

hand with another

didn’t answer me. He

“Hmm?”