The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 156

Beauty grabbed the car keys from the office table and muttered, “Let’s go,

“Go where?” I asked.

She turned to me “we

“we won’t d

do the ritual in this office,” Beauty then drag me down the stairs and towards the garage.

When the garage door opened, she clicked a button and I saw several cars, all sleek and shiny, waiting for us.

“Today is a special day, so let us drive you in a special car.”

“Cool” she said but when I turned around, I didn’t see Eros.

“Is the King not coming with us?” I asked. “The help bond had to be established between me and him, right? So, we have to do the ritual together,”

Beauty pouted and shook her head “He needs some time to cool off. So, he would join us directly there.”

“Where is there?” I asked, but she simply smiled and opened the door. She shoved me inside.

“Ouch,” I rubbed my elbow when it lightly hit the

door.

“Sorry. It’s just that I am both nervous and excited. I have been asking him for days… Scratch that, its been years i’ve been asking him but he never did. Anyway, I have spent time over the years, studying the visions and trying to analyze the pattern. I hope it works.” She added nervously as her fingers gripped the steering wheel a bit too hard.

get there and be

Beauty

the wide empty road that she soon left to drive on a muddy. dirt patch. The ride wasn’t bumpy, but she drove deeper into the forest,

would have asked her where we were going for the umpteenth time, but I doubted she

answer.

and such, but somehow she was taking me there and, given that he let us leave, this could be a

only piqued my

were denser here and the moonlight filtering in through the canopy of trees got fainter as we drove forward. However, I did not

dark, the air around

any other wild animal suddenly pouncing on us vanished as a soft breeze kept caressing my face, tickling an idle

to sleep. My eyelids began to droop, and I felt that I would sleep like a

But s

the car came to a halt as Beauty hit the brakes and turned the ignition

me. I had my elbow propped

stifled a yawn and stepped outside the car. And the scene waiting in front of me was

thick with the scent of pine and damp moss as I rubbed my eyes to see the splendid sight in front

into this clearing and only now I understood what was lulling

from amidst them, the reflection of the night sky visible in the small pool of water surrounded by the rocks. The water

in front of the huge scenery as if she was the mastermind behind nature to

not wanting to break the

when my mind is particularly uneasy or when I feel restless,” she added as

replied, and she nodded in agreement. Her hands dug inside her bag that she

face to get rid of the sleep. As I took a step closer, I balanced my foot on the edge of the rocks surrounding the small pool. The water

face and gathered some in my palms that I drank heartily. I

with my sleeves, I noticed something else as well Amidst the moss–covered rocks, and waterfall, an extraordinary sight unfolded–a statue carved out of the

started, but could not quite understand it from

me and replied, “Oh, you noticed it right It