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.

Eden. I didn’t know

who stared at us intently from the door, looking like he would rather be anywhere but here watching my

moment to look away as if to

going to

I could almost imagine the man rolling his

her, Rose.”

he called my mother’s

queasy.

he is

I just couldn’t tell, all I could think of at that moment was that the man I had wanted to meet all my

my mother’s arm. I slowly turned and looked

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that cocky smile on his face. He hadn’t moved much from his position. He pulled his hat away from his head, and a beautiful mane of red hair very much like

me in?”

didn’t answer.

small nod, he walked in, his movements fluid and flawless like his looks. He gently settled on a couch,

a little, allowing his long length

looked royal, like a king who knows his strength. I wasn’t sure how to approach him, how to feel about him or what

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

one night stand with, I

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

my thoughts, he looked at me and I

is Lord Shevek.” He smiled, his eyes warm “Please come sit. I would like to

for a bit before I

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

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

him, a strange comfort. I felt entranced, the way I gravitated to him like a magnetic pull. I couldn’t stop

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