The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 182

(ROSE’s Pov- Eden’s Mom)

The first moment I saw Lord Shevek at my door, I almost didn’t believe it. How did he find me? Why now? After years of being treated like absolute trash by Griffin.

My first pregnancy was the most unexpected thing to happen to me.

At the time, I had waited so long for a mate, and I just assumed he didn’t exist since I never found him. When I met Lord Shevek, I fell fast for his good looks and quick charms.

What got me hooked on him was the sadness he tried to hide beneath his playful grin and flirty looks. I still don’t know why I felt a great urge to comfort him back then, but I did.

And things got out of control.

It was the first time in my life I would experience something so overwhelming and uncontrollable.

The passion between us felt like it was lit by a flame, and before we knew it, we were in bed together as we made love.

I never imagined an affair between a vampire and a werewolf would result in a child; none of us did.

The euphoric feeling I felt when we made love all those years ago washed over me when I saw him again.

Followed by dread, despair, and pain. I feared he was here to take Eden away and manipulate her just like Griffin did with my Olivia.

I felt a pang in my heart

Griffin has been nothing but a monster to me, and I prayed Olivia would eventually come to see exactly the kind of man he was before it’s too late.

Lord Shevek, on the other hand, slowly made me feel at ease.

I began to let my guard down when he requested my permission to bring Eden to the coven. He acted like the absolute gentleman, and I was beginning to get soaked in his charms.

All through the time, from when we left the house in his car and got to the coven, I was beginning to assume things could spark up between us. I hoped for true love…

I knew Shevek had no beloved. He told me she had died when we first met. I thought we would be able to start something new but I was wrong. Things started to go wrong in my head the minute I heard him compliment another woman in the dress shop and said he would consider the woman for a wife.

I remember the way he looked at me when he finally noticed I was in the shop. I was so angry that I returned his soft gaze with a glare. Maybe I was the foolish one. We had barely spent more than five hours with each other, and I already planned a forever with him in my head. He had that effect on me. And no matter how angry I felt, I just couldn’t get myself to lash out at him.

Somehow I still allowed myself to believe things could change if his feelings changed towards me.

Then there was his harem of women.

That was my undoing.

held myself back from bursting into a pool of tears at the

the metallic stench of blood and still tolerate the other young

this felt different, like healed wounds were opened anew and poked with a sharp

looked like she was ready to sleep with anything and anyone that came her way, but she acted nicely, gave me a soft

share the same feelings. They scoffed and made sly comments about how Shevek had brought in a wretch and boldly told me I would never be anything

the time Eden and Shevek came back into

felt like I would die if I kept watching them, so I took an excuse and left soon

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3:35 PM

Chapter 182

offered a partial darkness that calmed me, and as soon as I plopped myself into

would come to love me if only I let

myself

deep in the night when a growl woke me up from sleep. I opened my eyes to see a figure lurked in the dark. The moon was high in the sky, and I could see

I

is there?” I

heard a familiar

moved. I let out a breath of relief when I confirmed

you doing here?” I asked, dragging the sheets closer to

eyed me, then suddenly

could leave, I jumped out of bed and grabbed him

“Wait.”

me to see every detail of his face

fangs were out. But it didn’t scare me; nothing about Shevek could ever scare me. I

clear enough that I

me go, Rose.”

held his

the exact things I had dreamt of to me. I didn’t care if he had a harem of women at his beck and call. In this moment, I only saw

came out as a whisper, “I want you to

He grabbed me by the waist and tugged my head

me against the wall, which supported

growled and licked my skin, his fangs scraping the surface. Then his

fast. There was no stop. Everything happened

hand into my gown and parted my tighs as he dug a finger into my core. And as quick as I could imagine, Shevek drove

fill the room. Before I knew what

felt cold against my