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.

this would mean. I would lose everything if Ryker died. Besides, I would never kill another unjustly, not even for the

wrong

I have done this and not

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

about to 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 mine, and

been waiting to see if they should be excited

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

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a tige burden was taken off

kill me?”

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

I said with pursed lips. “I never intended to. I

I said softly.

and stretched my hands to him. He eyed it suspiciously before he finally took my hand and

staggered slightly, and I caught him. I knew he was still weak from my 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

faster.

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

raised my hand up. The crowd howled again in excitement, and screams of

laughed; excitement grabbed a hold of

suddenly felt a little worried that Eden was still not back

of her was when Olivia had led her

to

would be fine. Olivia was still her sister after all; what could

was the moment Eden and I had

had somehow found their way down to us. I was surprised to see the smile on their faces. I always

on both sides, the way they

in the air and

loud piercing scream rang out from the crowd, followed by another and another until everywhere was suddenly in

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

nowhere. I blocked his attack just In time, but it took a good bite

snapping at me. Their teeth were bared and spit ran out of their mouth

rogues in