The Beta’s Regret

Chapter 236

Everything was a linke blurry

It was like I was asleep, and I just woke up. My head banged in pain, and a groan left my lips.

I looked around. The crowd was in a shocked silence. Some of them were seated, others stood. Some had their hands up in a cheer but were stuck in that position as they stared at me in horror.

I frowned.

What happened?

1 looked down at the floor to see a badly beaten Ryker on his back. His body had bruises all over and he bled.

My eyes widened. Did I do this?

I looked at my hands. They were stained with blood. I staggered backward, and looked back at the crowd with a slight spin.

I can’t remember how I got to this point.

Their reactions were the same everywhere. Even the Elders were no longer seated. They were anxiously looking down at us.

could see that Eden was not there.

The growing noise in the crowd snapped me back to reality. I realized I was still staring at the crowd, and I turned back to see how badly hurt Ryker was.

He was still. Unmoving.

Fear gripped me. Did I kill him?

I watched the referee drop to his knees and checked for his pulse. Nothing. Ryker’s face had a pale look to it.

I took a deep, ragged breath, and a shocked gasp broke out of me.

What did I do to him?

I also dropped to my knees beside Ryker. I reached out nervously, trying to touch him.

knew what this would mean. I would lose everything if Ryker died.

was wrong with

done this and not

hard to recall, but nothing came up. One minute Ryker was in front of me; the next he was lying down on the

terrible outcome, Ryker woke up with a start. He took in a deep, long breath with a strangled sound, then shorter breaths as he looked around quickly. His

if they’d been waiting to see if

name filled the arena, and my eyes pricked slightly as I

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like a tige burden was taken off

kill me?” Ryker

se his tone gisted on my nerves, I was more relieved that he was alive. It was better if

“I never intended to. I don’t

I said softly.

huffed and looked away. I stood up and stretched my hands to him. He eyed it suspiciously before he finally took

my attack. It was a surprise he could stand at all considering the

faster.

the

hand up. The crowd howled again

grabbed a

a little worried that Eden was still

I saw of her was when Olivia had led her away. My head snapped to the side, but she was

to get agitated

and told myself she would be fine. Olivia was still

and I had been waiting

way down to us. I was surprised to see the smile on their faces. I always assumed

both sides, the way they sat

my hand in the air and shouts of victory rent the crowd

Crandall could say a word, a loud piercing scream rang out

startled not knowing what exactly was going

jumped at me from nowhere. I blocked his attack just In time,

at me. Their teeth were

there rogues in