The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 170

The stranger’s voice was smooth, and deep.

It was amazing how he could have such powerful influence without making much effort.

I frowned, feeling uneasy as I stared into his face. I ignored the first words he spoke, giving him another full look to be sure I had never seen him anywhere else.

Tiara stirred within me, senses heightened. “Who are you?” I asked, trying to keep my voice steady.

The man’s smirk widened as he ran his gaze over me. “You don’t know me do you?”

Before he could respond, a gasp echoed behind me. I turned to see mom standing a few feet behind me, her eyes wide and face pale. She was so still that I feared she had stopped breathing.

“Mom?” I called out

She didn’t answer. She just stared at us in shock. I looked back at the man and at my mother again.

“Mom, do you know him?” I asked.

I was beginning to feel something strange stir up in me. I knew whatever was happening wasn’t going to sit too well with me.

My mom made a strange sound in her throat. Her eyes started to tear up, and before I could say anything else, she burst into

tears.

I was taken aback by it. I hurried over to her, holding her arms in my hand as I forced her to look at me.

“Mom, are you okay? What is wrong?”

She continued crying. I never thought I would see her cry more than she did the day before, but this seemed worse.

I was still at a loss on what to do when my mother finally got herself together enough to speak.

sorry Eden. I didn’t know he would…” She trailed

at us intently from the door, looking like he would rather be anywhere but here watching my mother cry. “Do

away as if to gather her thoughts before she finally looked at me

don’t know how I’m going to say this.”

frustrated sigh from behind me, and I could almost imagine the man

Rose.”

way he called my mother’s name. Everything about this situation was making

queasy.

Eden, he is your father.” My mom

think of at that moment was that the man I had

fell from my mother’s arm. I slowly turned and

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face. He hadn’t moved much from his position. He pulled his hat away from his head, and a beautiful mane of red hair

you let me

answer. I

movements fluid and flawless like his looks. He gently settled on

allowing his long length

king who knows his strength. I wasn’t sure how to approach him, how to feel

observed him some more, his pale almost pristine white skin, his red hair that sharply contrasts

was the man my mother had a one night stand with, I

he was a vampire. Even if he was yet to show me

reading my thoughts, he looked at me and

said. “My name is Lord Shevek.” He

bit before I

in the room. I shivered. With the kind of aura he emanates, I didn’t need to be told he was a

clean–cut, stiff, and polished he looked, he didn’t seem dangerous…. in a

felt entranced, the way I gravitated to him like a magnetic pull. I couldn’t stop it even if I tried, but I

him to have