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.

I would lose everything if Ryker died. Besides, I would never kill another unjustly,

wrong

done this and

One minute Ryker was in front of me;

give in to 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 eyes met

they’d been waiting to see

filled the arena, and my eyes pricked slightly as I became overwhelmed with emotions of relief

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felt like a tige burden was taken

you trying to kill

on my nerves, I was more relieved that he was alive.

pursed lips. “I never intended to. I don’t

I said softly.

up and stretched my hands to him. He eyed it

attack. It was a surprise he could stand at all considering the amount of damage I caused him, but I also knew that the fact that

faster.

to the ground. He waved me

crowd howled again in excitement, and screams of “champion” and “king” filled

grabbed a hold of

Eden was still not back in

when Olivia had led her away. My head snapped to the

began to

and told myself she would be fine. Olivia was still

the moment Eden and I had been waiting for. This

was surprised to see the smile on their

me on both sides, the way they sat beside

Crandall held my hand in the air

before Elder Crandall could say a word, a loud piercing scream rang out from the crowd, followed by another and another until

and I were startled not knowing what exactly was going on as the noise came from

blocked his attack just

to the ground as another joined him, ferociously snapping at me. Their teeth were bared

rogues in