The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 118

I looked around, but whoever my savior had been.. was gone. I looked down at my body and the small cuts that had appeared on my arms and legs when the vines thorns had cut me were nowhere to be seen as well.

I rubbed my hands and legs, trying to feel the pain, but there was none either. I looked around wildly again and asked loudly.

“Hello W

Who was that?”

My eyes roamed around nervously and I waited for a reply, but there was silence. Had I imagined all of it? Definitely not.

So I tried again.

“I just wanted to thank you for the help. Thank you for saving me, I said and then a soft voice replied to me.

“Do not mention me to anybody” It seemed to reach my ears from behind. I turned around so fast that I felt I had snapped

my neck

But the direction from which the voice had come was devoid of any living being.

All I could see were leaves and branches. Why was this person playing hide and seek with me?

“B–but why are you hiding from me? L., I am not going to harm you, I offered. I didn’t look like a scary predator, but I could not understand what this person wanted from me.

The voice let out a deep, rumbling laughter. “You cannot harm mac, but the people around you can and will.”

My friends? Eros? Arthur, Beauty?

The voice was speaking mysteriously, and I felt all the more intrigued.

“What people around me? Who will harm you?”

The voice seemed to be of a female, but I could not quite ascertain the age of the woman based on just the voice alone. When I did not receive an answer, I tried again

“My name is Eden. What is yours? And why are you here in the forest? What were those vines?” 1 asked, but the woman dodged my questions and spoke rather.

“Eden. You are in grave danger. Do not trust those around you.”

to the location of the speaker who was lurking in the woods. At one point it seemed to come from

she was doing was a mystery

why was she not showing me

blinked. This mysteriousness

you at least give

never going to reply.

took such a long pause that I feared she was ne “The Hybrid King.

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Chapter 118

voice said, and then all of a sudden, the brightness disappeared. The forest was black again, and I sensed that the woman was leaving to wherever

back on my feet and tried to stop her. This was a weird encounter, but

Why should I

use you and throw you away when he is done with you.

tone, but the way she spoke

would you say that?” I

best mates in my previous life,

This was

thoughts that I didn’t even

you answer me,

you want to thank me for saving your life, you shall do

“Do what?”

trust him and don’t mention me to

not shown your face or told me your name. How can I trust you?” I countered. My question was

to kill me.

he wanted to do that, he would’ve done it months ago, right? When he just brought me

I could inquire further, a bright light shone on my face abruptly. It was so intense that I instantly shut my

while, I opened my eyes, and I

I was startled.

in the forest? How did I come

remember, but my brain could not give me a single satisfactory answer to my questions. There was only a lingering feeling, a light caress

told me that Eros was not

what or who was it? I scratched the back of my head and tried to recall, but a sharp bolt of pain shot up my

my head in my hands, I stumbled back and looked around hazily. And when I stopped trying to recall, the paint