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.

so lost in each other that it took them a long time to notice that

over her face, but it was quickly

still loved me. Despite the fact that I had caught her, I

no intention to come back to me. She was no longer the sweet,

was looking at a spiteful snake as she

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

didn’t you?” Eden

leaned against the wall,

terrible things against me. I really don’t know how, but she

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had to run away from the coven because they were treated

just to make her bitter. That my parents tried to kill her several times,

my own ears “She was

Dimitrois believed her?” Eden

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

painful hearing her accuse me and my 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 the only one who made

I shook my head.

fed the king with pity stories to make her look vulnerable

try to clear your name?” Rose said

in her voice. She looked angry,

I tried to defend myself, but it was difficult to make him

would have