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 an

guilt had passed over her face, but it was

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

to me. She was no longer

she began to spit lies

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

you?”

just leaned against the wall, watching. He knew this

me. I really don’t know how, but she had convinced

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had to run away from the coven

would lock her up for days and sleep with other women just to make her bitter. That my parents

bitter to my own ears

her?” Eden said

world, he would have given it to her. Even the queen didn’t stand

but they never treated her unkind. My mother

I shook my head.

she had fed the king with pity stories to make her look vulnerable and pitiful in his eyes, like an abandoned dog caught

clear your name?”

She looked angry, and I wondered if this was because of what

myself, but it was difficult to make him believe Lyraea

course it would have