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.

let us just get there and be

Beauty

outside, taking me through the wide empty road that she soon left to drive on a muddy. dirt patch. The ride wasn’t bumpy,

where we were going for the umpteenth time, but I doubted

answer.

deeper into the forest since there could be rogues and such, but somehow she was taking me there and, given that he let us leave,

only piqued my

the moonlight filtering in through the canopy of trees got fainter as we

nearly dark, the air around here felt calm

sleeping or hunting. My fear of some rogue or any other wild animal suddenly pouncing on us vanished as a

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

But s

car came to a halt as Beauty hit the brakes

elbow propped on the window side and my head

yawn and stepped outside the car. And the scene waiting

and damp moss as I

moonlight was shining brightly into this clearing and only now I understood what was lulling me to sleep. A huge but serene waterfall was cascading

the night sky visible in the small pool of water surrounded

open while standing in front of the huge scenery as if she was the mastermind

wanting to break the calm silence by

study or just relax when my mind is particularly uneasy or when I feel restless,”

It feels so calm here,” I replied, and she nodded in agreement. Her hands dug inside

water over my face to get rid of the sleep. As I took a step closer, I

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

wiped my face 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 very stones

but could not quite understand it from

you noticed it right It took me a