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.

took them a long time to notice that they had

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

deluded myself to believe that Lyraea still loved me. Despite the fact that I had

was no longer the sweet, innocent girl I used to know. She

as she began to spit lies over and over again just to

the king that I was her beloved. I -thought I would be able

you?”

leaned against

the King. She said terrible things against me. I really

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the coven. She said her family had to run away from the coven because they were treated like scum before they finally found a job in the

would lock her up for days and sleep with other women just to make her bitter. That my parents tried to kill her several times,

laughed, the sound bitter to my own ears “She

believed her?”

Lyraca told him that she wanted the world, he would have given it to

did. My parents might have been a little harsh on her, but they never treated her unkind. My mother was the only one who made it clear

I shook my head.

make her look vulnerable and pitiful

clear your

heart skipped at the fire in her voice. She looked angry, and I wondered if this was because of

myself, but it was difficult to make him believe Lyraea was

scoffed. “Of course it would have