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.

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

wrong with

I have done this and

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

took in a deep, long breath with a strangled sound, then shorter breaths

crowd roared in excitement. It was as if they’d been waiting to see if they should

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

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like a tige burden was taken off

to kill me?” Ryker snapped

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

lips. “I never intended to.

I said softly.

hands to him. He eyed it suspiciously before

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

faster.

my hand and let himself fall back to the ground. He waved me off as he

referee came to my side and raised my hand up. The crowd howled again in excitement, and screams of “champion” and “king” filled

grabbed

suddenly felt a little worried that Eden

when Olivia had led her away. My head snapped

to get agitated

breaths and told myself she would be fine. Olivia was still her sister after all; what could

was the moment Eden and I had been

found their way down to us. I was surprised to see the

way they sat

held my hand in the air and shouts of victory

out from the crowd, followed by another and another until everywhere was suddenly in

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

wolf jumped at me from nowhere. I blocked his attack

another joined him, ferociously snapping at me. Their teeth were bared and spit ran out of their

there rogues in the