The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 126

“Change? In what way?”

“I would have told you, but Eros is the King and he wants to do it when he feels the time is right. I only hope you awaken. your wolf today, so I don’t have to be so tight–lipped around you. She said, and it somehow made me feel both anxious and a bit relieved.

“Are you going to sacrifice me in some ritual?” I teased, and was rewarded with a chuckle.

“Eros doesn’t believe in rituals or sacrifices. He does not even believe in the Moon Goddess anymore. So you don’t have to worry about that.”

“But why?” I blurted out

Beauty pretended to not hear me. Instead, she walked past me and stood in front of the open wardrobe looking at the clothes.

“Hmm, we have to find something that will show how strong you are”

“I don’t really see the need to dress up” I made the same argument I had shared with Glinds, but Beauty shook her head.

“Sorry, King’s orders”

I made a face, but Beauty stuck her tongue out and began pulling out a few dresses for me to wear.

“this looks too formal, she said while picking up a business suit.

“Nah, this one’s too chic” she said, dismissing another, and I kept waiting for her to arrive at a conclusion.

When she had thrown almost a dozen of dresses on the bed with a frown, I raised a hand.

“Can I suggest something?”

“Go on,” she said while still shuffling through the wardrobe.

“Can I wear something that looks like the night

sky?”

Beauty stopped shuffling and looked at me with an amused smile. “As in?”

“As in today is the full moon and I hope just like last time, my wolf shows up and this time I manage to completely shift. So, it would be nice to wear something that makes me look like have draped the night sky. Something with a light dusting of stars… Her smile seemed to widen as I vividly imagined the dress, and I stopped abruptly.

“Did 1 blabber a lot?”

“Not really” She began looking through the blue dresses hanging down in the wardrobe. To be honest, I did not even know there were so many dresses inside the wardrobe.

I would only grab the gymn wear and pajamas.

I did not even bother checking through the rest of

and replied, “Now, you

when to open.

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Saying so, she made me put on a sleeping mask to ensure I would not cheat. For the next hour or so, she kept putting on something or the other

the make up brushes touch my skin and the creams and gels with which she styled my hair, dabbed my wrists with some perfume and even painted

anxiety bubbling in me as the day

awakened a wolf was

a silent prayer to the moon goddess to help me find my wolf. Mentally, I also prepared myself for the worst case

began to tie a knot with the silky

of anybody before excluding my mother, so it

had chosen for me needed me to strip down bare so that the

askew as she buttoned

the fabric, and I felt it to be satiny soft. It did feel snug and not

I asked impatiently and Beauty

curler in her hands for I felt

huffed breath and I

mattress.

Eros pays me for

the mask off my eyes at some point, but had turned me

was no

lower lip, I opened my eyes to see her sitting on the bed. She e was right there in front of me,

pat

not.

staring up at the ceiling, and she seemed to be having a

“Beaul What’s wrong?”

she had made me sit in. I almost tripped

was sitting cross–legged on the bed, and her

still staring at

when she got out of her trance

Are you okay?” I asked, and

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ask for the pack doctor to check on you? You are sweating.” I said and dabbed her forehead with a