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

in work and it did not look like last night

and was still

again. Either that, or just leave the room if he did not want me

he did neither, and that was confusing

servant bowed and promptly left, glad to not be around the

nervously and walked towards the tray. Placing the papers I had collected on the

“Sugar?”

curtly answered, and I put one cube

and

soft clinks of the spoon against the ceramic cup were the only noise in the big office. I would have argued with him that I am not his maid to serve him tea/coffee, but he had found me eavesdropping on him so I couldn’t yell at him at

moment.

was supposed to obey him because his mark meant I was under his protection. I meekly handed him the cup, which

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

table, spilling it all over the files he had

I let out a startled cry and hastily pulled some tissues to dab it off

ink was spreading through

weird

the desk and I felt

mumbled, “I am sorry, I didn’t mean

he only grabbed my wrist and held it in front of me, My hair was askew as

me was firm.

met his and I quickly looked down, not wanting

it purposely… I cried, but he simply plucked me away from the table and pushed me on

chair and my body had not even gotten time to react

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

He mumbled to himself before king off the

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me and squatted down. Without saying a word, he took my hand in his and

what he was doing before he wiped away some of the dried bits off

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

covering it partially. He was being so

things to me, and he was not even the least bothered. How could this man stay so

I just become another plaything for

too much to bear and seeing him not yell at me made me feel as if he was simply

done with it so I don’t live in this

ink of the marker and pens spreading through even more papers, making it look

sorry,

ointment on my arms and I tried not to gasp

twice the size of mine, and he could squash it in an instant if he wanted

got up from the floor and went back to

there, holding my burned hand with another as

didn’t answer me. He said, while gathering the

“Hmm?”