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

it did not look like last night had affected him in any

all day and was still

would do upon seeing me again. Either that, or

neither, and that was confusing

promptly left, glad to

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

“Sugar?”

curtly answered, and I put one cube of

the cue and poured the milk while reaching for a spoon to mix it

argued with him that I am not his maid to serve him tea/coffee, but he had found me eavesdropping on him

moment.

under his protection. I meekly handed him the cup, which he took from me without even looking at

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

table, spilling it all

as I let out a startled cry and hastily pulled some tissues to

the marker ink was spreading through the white pages, making them look

weird

busy tidying the desk

sorry,

my wrist and held it in front of me, My hair

me was firm.

looked

me away from

and then placed me on the chair and my body had not even

gulped nervously. When he saw that I was not moving, he went to the cupboard and rummaged through it to bring

would need this. He mumbled to himself before king off the lid, I peered

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Without saying a word, he took my hand in

was doing before he wiped away some of the dried bits off my hand and I saw redness spreading through

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

his hair fell on his face, covering it partially. He

was doing things to me, and he was not even the least

plaything for him

quickly swallowed it. The silence was too much to bear and seeing him not

him to shout at me and be done with it so I don’t

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

sorry, I muttered

arms and I tried not to gasp when his hands softly caressed me, his fingers trailing down my

of mine, and he could squash

done, he got up from the

sat there, holding my burned hand with another as he began salvaging the

answer me. He said, while gathering the

“Hmm?”