The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 199

(Eros Pov)

With a gust of wind, I landed on all fours in front of a small cave hidden deep within a large rock.

The moon cast a soft glow over the entrance of the cave, which shone with strange symbols carved into it.

With a grunt, I stood up and wiped the dust off me as I stretched.

This was sacred ground. It was invisible to the uninitiated, but I had access to it because my initiation process had begun.

However, I might have made a mess by leaving before I finished the final procedure.”

Because of Eden.

I had no idea what had happened. One minute I was inside the cave lying in a coffin and the next I was next to Eden, Susie, and the hybrids.

All I remembered was tBeast had sensed Tiara’s desperation, and then all went black.

When I became conscious again, Eden, Adonis, and others stared at me in shock. Apparently I must have done something.

Susie suggested I leave, and I did.

I still felt a great urge to go back to the coven and bring Eden along, but I couldn’t. I would ruin everything.

“What the-“I gasped as I heard a loud ring in my ears and became lightheaded. I stumbled forward and grasped the sides of the wall for balance as quickly as I could.

Pain ravaged my body. It ran straight from my head down my spine. I groaned in agony as I fought for control.

ok a long while before I got myself back.

Lros?”

Startled, I looked back to see who called me.

A small woman who wore a white cloak that covered her from head to toe stared back at me. She held an oil lamp in front of her, which she raised to my face.

I shielded my eyes from the bright light.

“By the moon!” She gasped. “You look terrible. How could you disregard all that we warned you against?”

I guilt chewed my insides.

“My apologies.”

She narrowed her gaze on me. “You ruined the ritual. You were supposed to stay locked in the coffin for thirty days, underwater, but you got out.”

closed my eyes. “I

go back to the elders.” She instructed as she led a path through the entrance of the cave. “They

if I won’t be

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behind as I thought about how I left this place in

thought about

questions. Why was she in a vampire coven? And

days. The last time we made love and I left, I deliberately refused to inform her about where I was going because

there was, I was sure Arthur and the rest

me; I only hoped she would be able to forgive

on the floor. I cried out

“Shut it.” She growled.

procedure. I wasn’t supposed to say a word when going through the cave until I met

a large opening. It was some kind of circular

shimmering under the glow

this very water was where the moon goddess had descended into. And till this very moment no

pool, a coffin was opened, and I shivered. That was the same coffin

few inches away from the pool, there’s a raised platform attached to the walls of the cave that formed a semicirci,

elders of the

were dressed like the woman beside me, but their cloak had more shine and

could

was the elder who

He was Susie’s father.

cave that I realized that Susie now worked for the

of the elders

of the ritual? You ruined everything we took days to prepare for.”

names; they never revealed their faces,

of power you took along

I shivered.

too, which didn’t surprise me, but what I couldn’t understand were the strange

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I held my head in pain. The pain engulfed me and I

must finish the

voices of the elders faded in my

heard was “Kill me stepbrother.” I had a sudden flash of my experience with the man who looked