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 long time to notice that

had passed over her face, but it

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

had no intention to come back to me. She was no longer

was like I was looking at a spiteful snake as she

to the

you?” Eden

against the wall, watching. He knew this

I really don’t know how, but she had

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be bullied in the coven. She said her family had to run away from the coven because they were treated like scum

other women just to make her bitter. That my parents tried to kill her several times, and she barely escaped with her

sound bitter to my own ears “She was a

Dimitrois believed her?”

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

parents of things we never did. My parents might have been a little harsh on her, but they never treated her unkind. My mother was

I shook my head.

king with pity stories to make her look vulnerable and pitiful in his eyes, like an abandoned dog

to clear your name?” Rose said

voice. She looked angry, and I wondered if this

defend myself, but it was difficult to

scoffed. “Of course it would have been. She had spun a