The Beta’s Regret

(Eden's Pov)

I woke up to sunlight filtering into the tent. For a moment, I was in a haze as figures hovered over me.

Their shapes were blurry, but their presence was strong enough to tell me who they were.

As my sight became better, the first person I saw clearly was my mother. Tears rolled down her face as she blew her nose noisily into a handkerchief. My father stood beside her with a frown etched into his face. Beauty and Adonis were positioned next to them, their faces wearing worry lines.

A chill rocked me.

I know the agony on their face was beyond my fainting spell. If anything, it was a confirmation of what I feared the most.

Still, I wanted to know the truth, to hear from their lips once more that it is exactly what they said before.

"Eros." I started softly. "Is he really gone?" the last part came out in a whisper. I gripped the side of the dress waiting for an answer...

"Yes." Adonis finally squeaked out. "Eros is dead."

The world literally spun. My heart stopped, and my breath seized for a moment. Suddenly everything became too hard to bear.

I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact that Eros is dead. How is that even possible?

I screamed for it to be a lie, but deep down, I knew it wasn't.

How could this happen?

shook. I almost tore off my dress in my desire to run far away from this reality. I tried hard to hold myself together so I wouldn't completely fall

I was completely swallowed by the grief. It was almost as if I could no longer reason. I had a great urge to scream, to rip the

was suddenly opened. I

We all cried now.

in denial that her mate was no more. She should have known, or at least felt something, but she

possible was that? It was almost as if I

into. I could

should have been there,

lost just as I

I. We were supposed to rule together, side by side as equals. As

and queen, to rule the people justly. We were supposed to raise our kids together and build a

How do I rain

our child

without my mate?

The tears flowed freely.

loud cry, I raised my face upward, my voice thick with the bitterness

don't you take my life instead?" I cursed at the moon goddess, hitting my

father immediately engulfed