The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 167

(Rose: Eden’s Mom Pov)

I sat with Eden and Eros, the weight of years pressing down on me as I continued to share everything I had kept buried for so long.

The truth spilled out of me like water breaking through a dam, the memories raw and vivid, almost as if I were reliving

them.

My mind drifted back to that night–cold, and drenched, as I stood beneath a large tree, trying to shield my three–year–old Eden from the relentless rain.

She clung to me, shivering, her small face pressed against my chest, and I whispered to her, promising everything would be okay even though I knew we had nowhere to go. I could still feel the weight of her in my arms, her tiny breaths against my neck.

I was pregnant again, my swollen belly making it harder to keep her steady in my arms, yet I held on as tightly as I could, feeling utterly alone and afraid.

I had thought about returning to my old pack, Crescent Moon. Maybe they would have taken me back, but the shame was too much to bear.

Besides, I couldn’t bring myself to leave Griffin, to give up on him. Despite everything, I believed he was my true love, the only one the Moon Goddess had ordained for me. I thought that maybe if I waited–just waited a little longer—he would come around and see me, really see me, as I saw him.

at me with a mixture of sorrow and

thought there’d never be anyone else for me.” I let out a bitter smile, shaking my

to scrape together enough to get a small place–a house, somewhere for my girls and me to call home. It wasn’t much,

in the darkness of night, Alpha Griffin would

would come to me, spend the night, and then leave as if it meant nothing, like I was nothing to him.” My voice faltered, remembering those painful nights. “He’d remind me, constantly, that I was

grip tightened around Eros’s hand. She looked down, lost in thought, and I could see the pain in her eyes–pain from a truth

shaky breath, feeling the memories pull me back. “It was a cycle I couldn’t break free from. Every time he came to me, I told myself maybe, just maybe, he was softening. Maybe he’d finally forgive me, or even… love me. But after every night he spent

the anger burning in his eyes. But this was my story, my burden

all hidden, thinking it was better that way, that you didn’t need

small, bitter smile. “I was wrong. I see that now. Maybe if I’d been more

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looked at me, her gaze softening, and I could feel her understanding, her

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the strength to continue. “As you know, you and Olivia are from different fathers. You… you’re a hybrid, part werewolf, part vampire. But Olivia… she was

when Lyra, the child he had with Belle, escaped with your friend, Alice. That was when he… he decided he needed Olivia. She was his chance to feel like a