The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 197

(Lord Shevek’s Pov)

It took a moment before they all recovered from that.

It was a time I would never forget easily either. Every word Lyraea spewed in the dungeon was like a nail with a hammer drove into my skull. It ripped me apart…

When she announced she was pregnant, I knew there was no turning back. She would never come back to me.

She knew how much I loved her. She was mine, but she allowed herself to be a mistress for another just because of money and power.

I couldn’t recognize her. All I saw was a woman filled with a bitterness that made her different from the Lyraea I loved and was ready to protect with my life.

“That wasn’t all.” I sighed. “Lyraea knew having a child was not enough. She knew that before she could ascend the throne, she needed to get rid of the queen.”

“There was no way she could have done that.” Eden frowned.

I raised a brow. “Not for Lyraea. She was the queen’s personal maid before the King officially made her his concubine. She knew how to bribe the palace maids to do whatever she wanted. She used this method to slip poison into the queen’s tea in small quantities.”

“She did?” Eden’s eyes widen.

“Yes. She told me herself. Her goal was to make the queen die in a way that looked natural. That was why she used poison in small amounts and hoped that she would succeed.”

“That’s evil.” Rose said.

“After she told me about what she was doing to the queen, she left.”

I remembered how Kaliyah, Lyraea’s maid, had looked at me with pity. It was obvious she was not in support of what Lyraea was doing, but there was nothing else she could do.

“I cried.” My eyes fell on Rose as a tear slipped from her eyes. “I was heartbroken, and I couldn’t stop how I felt. I trusted Lyraea to keep our bond sacred. But she ruined everything.”

I felt a sting in my chest, and I gasped. The emotions from years ago came back with a force.

“I don’t think I have ever prayed as hard as I did back then. I was desperate for help. I needed to escape, not just the prison cell, but to run away from everything else.”

I called on the moon goddess to

released?” Eden’s female friend asked in surprise. “That

“Beauty.” Adonis cautioned her.

around her. When she noticed that she had gotten too close to me out of sheer curiosity, her

and

My eyes softened. “It was Kaliyah.

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the coven.”

“Kaliyah?” Eden frowned.

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replied. “Lamia’s mother. She was the maid Lyraea brought along to the dungeon to see

“Who is

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said softly. “Kaliyah found her beloved here and got pregnant, but she died after she gave birth, then her beloved died

Didn’t you say Kaliyah was Lyraea’s maid? How could she have

nodded. “Yes, she was. Even though Kaliyah was a slave, which was a rank lower than the palace maids, Kaliyah and Lyraea started out as friends before she got involved with the

maid that told me Lyraea was in the garden. When

moon…” Beauty chuckled. “She sounds

her his

“Oh no.” Beauty grimaced.

Kaliyah had it bad too. Lyraea never failed to torture and harass her

I sighed.

for me because she knew what Lyraea was doing wasn’t right, and she

did she help you?”

to feed the guards. She gave them soup that was laced with some kind of sleeping potion The guards slept off. Then she got the keys from them and

Eden murmured. “It must have been

pull it through to the end, but we

I shivered.

the place to the ground. Families were being ripped apart, children were killed, and parents were burned to ashes.”