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.

myself back from bursting into a pool

and still tolerate the other young and beautiful

like healed wounds were opened

a flirty way. She looked like she was ready to sleep with anything and anyone that came

rest of the women unfortunately didn’t share the same feelings. They scoffed and made sly comments about how Shevek had brought in a wretch and boldly

the time Eden and Shevek came back into the room, I was barely keeping my emotions

I kept watching them, so I

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room, offered a partial darkness that calmed me, and as soon as I plopped myself into bed, the tears began to

he would come to love me if only I

myself

opened my eyes to see a figure lurked in the dark. The moon was high in the sky,

I sat up with a

there?”

heard a familiar

a short silence before the figure moved. I let out a

I asked, dragging the

then suddenly moved away. “I’m sorry I

of bed and grabbed him by

“Wait.”

were enough for me to see every detail

nothing about Shevek could ever scare me. I saw a certain depth of anger in his eyes, along with something else,

was clear enough that I couldn’t miss

me

I held

to feel his hands on me. To hold me, while he does 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 myself and

out as a whisper, “I want you to

the next moment was too fast for me to keep pace with. He grabbed me by the waist and tugged my head backwards until

had me against the wall, which supported my

my skin, his fangs scraping the surface.

kissed–hot, fast.

could imagine, Shevek drove in and out

room. Before I knew what Shevek

tongue plunged into me. It felt cold against my burning core. How could it feel so