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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servant who had just poured black tea into the cup and reached for the sugar. He didn’t say that to me, felt like it was an order directed at

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

he had been working all day and was still reading the files instead of lunging at me the second I

me again. Either that, or just leave the room if he did

and that

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

tray. Placing the

“Sugar?”

curtly answered, and I put one cube

again. I took the cue and poured the milk while reaching for a spoon

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

moment.

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

sip, and I watched his face for a change in expression, but there wasn’t any.

fell on the table, spilling it all over the files he had

as I let out a startled cry and

of them had stained and the marker ink was

weird

Eros ordered, but I was busy tidying the desk and I felt scired

“I am sorry, I didn’t

wrist and held it in front of me, My

me was firm.

when my gaze met his and I quickly looked down, not wanting to see the

but he simply plucked me away from the

he had grabbed me and then placed me on the chair and my body had not

gulped nervously. When he saw that I was not moving, he went to

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

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he going to disinfect

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in bewilderment as he placed the box beside me and squatted down. Without saying

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

of the tea in my hands. He wiped it off

fell on his face, covering it partially. He was being so

not even the

I just become another plaything

throat, but I quickly swallowed it. The silence was too much to bear and seeing him not yell

to shout at me and be done

gaze 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 like a big

am sorry, I

not to gasp when his hands softly caressed me,

size of mine, and he

he was done, he got up from the floor

sat there, holding my burned hand with another as he

me. He said, while gathering

“Hmm?”