The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 196

(Lord Shevek’s Pov)

“What?” Eden gasped. Her eyes widened as something else clicked. “King Dimitrois? Eros’s father?”

“I wasn’t expecting that.” Rose whispered. “How was that even possible? It’s highly unlikely that she would be with King Dimitrois.”

“I wasn’t expecting it either, but she was with him.” I said.

“King Dimitrois had a mate. What about the queen?” One of Eden’s two male friends, the one who kept protecting the other. young woman, spoke out.

“She was in the palace too, but Lyraea was like his mistress.”

“Oh…” Rose sighed.

“She was different from how I knew her” I remembered the look I saw in her eyes. When I saw her in the arms of King Dimitrois in their secret hideout.

I happened upon them by chance. Their relationship had been a secret at the time, and King Dimitrois didn’t want the Queen to find out about it yet.

When I arrived at the palace, I was looking all over for Lyraea. One of the maids had informed me that she saw Lyraea go into the garden. I decided to go look for her there.

I almost missed her, but the sound of her soft laughter echoing in the garden led me straight to where she stood with the king.

My heart hurt from the sight I had witnessed.

Lyraea was naked down to the waist; her dress pooled around her belly with her legs wrapped around the king. Her skin glowed beneath the sun, giving her an ethereal look. She had always been too beautiful to be a maid.

But the look of desire I saw in her eyes was my undoing. King Dimitrois was buried deep inside her, and her laugh quick became a desperate moan, their movements quick and frantic.

lost in each other that it took them a

of guilt had passed over her face, but it was quickly replaced by

to believe that Lyraea still loved me. Despite the fact that I had caught her, I was ready to forgive if only

intention to come back to me. She was no longer the sweet, innocent girl I used

looking at a spiteful snake as she began to spit lies over and over again just

“I tried to explain to the king that I was her beloved. I -thought I would be able

you?” Eden

been silent. He just leaned against the wall, watching. He knew this story

things against me. I really don’t know how, but she had convinced the king

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the coven. She said her family had to run away from

for days and sleep with other women just

to my own

Dimitrois believed her?”

that she wanted the world, he would have given it to her. Even the queen didn’t stand a chance

on her, but they never treated her unkind. My mother was the only one who made it clear she doesn’t support the relationship. But she never treated Lyraea like a maid; talk more of

I shook my head.

had fed the king with pity stories to make her look vulnerable

clear your name?” Rose said

angry, and I wondered if this was

defend myself, but it was

would have been. She had spun a