The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 223

(Eden’s Pov)

As soon as Eros stormed out of the dining room, I stood up and followed after him.

We left a heavy silence behind us.

Eros was fast. One minute he was right in front of me, and the next he wasn’t.

“Eros!” I called after him, but I got no response. I followed the hallway until I got to the front door and pushed it open.

The moon shone high in the sky, but Eros was nowhere to be found. I walked around, hoping to see him.

And I finally did.

I stopped moving for a moment and slowed my breath. The evening air calmly washed over me. I smelled the scent of flowers that lingered in the air, and I immediately assumed a garden must be around somewhere

But none of this could take away the grief that hung in the air.

I looked at Eros. He was seated on a bench beneath a large tree, staring into space. His posture was stiff, almost unmoving.

I could easily mistake him for a statue 1

if I didn’t know better.

As if he sensed me, Eros looked my way then looked away again.

In that moment, something struck me.

A

The air around me suddenly felt familiar. It was like I had seen this place before.

The second realm.

I looked around, and everything began to fall into place.

not notice this

The only major difference was the water fountain in the middle of the compound

My heart skipped.

How was this possible?

you think Eros will turn out to be like the one in the second

shook my head and ignored her voice. That wasn’t

felt patched, and I swallowed saliva to soothe it.

too distracted by Eros’s anger, my dream, and even Cheryl to have noticed at first,

this mean something more

thoughts from going too far. I don’t have

Eros needed me.

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closer to him. When I reached him, 1 paused for a bit, unsure about what to do or how to approach him. He looked vulnerable and lost, and I felt

was hurt. I

a healthy relationship with his father. It was more devastating to find

you

brother all along who wants to take what you’ve worked

“Eros,” I said softly.

again, and my

anger and pain written in it, and a helplessness I

and took his hand in mine, “You don’t have to go through

sighed and squeezed

hands were interlinked before he replied, “I don’t

it, but now… I want it. That’s why I’ve been trying hard to make sure I prove to myself that this is something I can handle.”

do it.”

a good king. I want to build a legacy that will last for years to come.” He said more passionately. “I wanted to do right by the

passionate about the kingship. I knew he wanted to be king,

in and allowed Eros to rest

shoulders.

to be going the way I imagined.” Eros continued, “And

my head