The Beta’s Regret

While Eros was all rugged, muscular, and brawny. Arthur was a different kind of handsome. He gave me the boy next door

vibe:

He would make an effort to talk to me, to make me feel comfortable, and made me laugh.

Arthur wiped the sauce off my lips but he didn’t let go of me. His hand kept caressing my face, and I tried not to think too much of it.

Arthur in my past life couldn’t have liked me. So why was this Arthur a little different. Could that Arthur have also liked me?

My eyelids fluttered as the pad of his thumb kept brushing over my skin, making me feel a slight tingle.

“Uhm, certainly you are handsome too, Arthur,” I said, and he came closer to me, standing directly in front of me.

Tve been told so.” He said with a grin, making me chuckle again.

Now the cocky Arthur is back.

While Arthur and Beauty were nice to me here, and also the maids and servants. King Eros still felt like a mysterious puzzle

to me.

“Hey, you’re lost again,” Arthur whispered, and I shook my head.

“No, not at all I lied. Then I smiled, and was about to say something when a sharp voice reached my ears.

“Arthur!” I looked behind Arthur to see none other than

King Eros walking towards us.

Arthur sprang away

sprang away from me as if we had been caught doing something scandalous, and I stepped away from him, too.

Eros was walking towards us with fast strides, and he was exuding both power and annoyance.

“Good morning, King Arthur bowed to him while I kept staring stupidly at him. King Eros didn’t pay me attention, as his eyes were fixed on his Beta. I realized that I should greet him too, so I promptly lowered my head and muttered.

“Good morning. King”

But Eros didn’t reply to me. He didn’t even look at me, and was glaring at his Beta, his hands were also thrust in his pockets. Something was off.

“Is…is something wrong. King?” Arthur asked, but King Eros pulled his hands out of his pockets and looked at the wristwatch. dangling from his wrist.

When he came and stood in front of Arthur, he asked, “What is the time now, Beta?” His voice was laced with authority and Arthur hastily checked his watch.

“It is close to 9 am, King.”

Eros kept glaring at him and asked in the same authoritative tone. “And what time were you supposed to come meet me?”

Arthur gulped nervously, “I did come to check twice, but you weir busy working. I also came last night, but I saw you with Olivia and I didn’t want to disturb you so…”

“So what?” Eros growled while my cars stung at the mention of Olivia.

10:43 Fri, Oct 25

Olivia, my sister’s replies, had been in his office alone again, Why does Eros even entertain her so much?

Had she tried to seduce him again? She had mentioned how she was going to marry him soon and then throw me out of the

mansion.

I would to gain my strength and leave this place before that happened. I’ve been through so much in life that I would want such embarrassment. My previous mate and my sister’s replica getting married.

Arthur fell silent and only mumbled, Tam sony, King

I felt sorry for Arthur. He hadn’t done a crime if Eros was the one lasy with some work or probably with Olivia.

tried to ignore the latter part, and not think of how much the thought of my sister with him was affecting me.

I kept looking at him, but Eros behaved as if I was not even around. He pulled his hand out of his pocket and asked his Beta.

“You were supposed to come meet me at 8 am.

Why is it that I have to go looking for you and then find you chitchatting with my breeder.”

1 raised my eyebrows at that. Had he just called me his with a touch of authority? But why then was he not even looking at

me?

His behavior was confusing!

“Y–your breeder? I… I thought she was going to be your anchor Arthur began, but Eros raised his hand, cutting him abruptly. “Enough! Stop wasting your time and focus on your work if you don’t want to be sent on a month long trip out kingdom

of the

Eross body posture was tense, and his shoulders were rigid. A muscle in his jaw twitched at Arthur’s words and he dragged him a few feet away from me.

Despite being just the start of the day. Eros was ready in his work clothes, and I also saw a stain of ink on his hand.

Did he already started working at the crack of dawn?

Meanwhile, I stood there wondering what the hell Arthur was blabbering about. What was an anchor and why was I being considered that?

I recalled the way Beauty said that Eros was dying and how I was the one who could save him.

Eros also called me his cure, so what’s an anchor?

I wished to ask them more, but Eros had dragged him away from me. I looked around the dining hall and found myself

alone

Apparently, the few servants who were bustling around to start their day had run away when Eros carne walking towards us angrily

I wished to talk to him about this but he stalked away from the open lawns with Arthur in tow, leaving me staring at his retreating figure until he disappeared behind the walls of the mansion.

What the hell was this behavior? I couldn’t make sense of it and it irritated me.

If he didn’t want me around, he could simply ask me to leave. Not knowing what to do, I left the hall and walked back to my room. I decided to take a shower to cool down as well.

My muscles were burning after the rung, but I felt refreshed, nonetheless. I decided to slowly add a few more steps to my

Fri, Oct

traning regime and maybe do strength training so that I would be able to complete my shifting better next time.

After changing into fresh clothes, I stepped outside the room and wondered what to do for the rest of the day.

Glinda saw me gliding down the stairs and waved at me to come downstairs. “Aren’t you hungry? Come on, eat something”

I smiled at her and replied. “Are you on a mission to make everybody eat as much as they can?”

Glinda gasped and pretended to be shocked “How did you find out?”

I giggled and still sat on the chair as she brought some hot food for me to have. The aroma wafting through the air made me feel hungry, and 1 gobbled up everything that she served me.

My eyes kept drifting to the other side of the mansion, Eros’s office, to be specific. The two seemed to be still in some meeting, but I didn’t want to go to his office again after the last incident.

Thus, I finished my food and got up from the table, and at the same moment, I saw Arthur walk out of the office.

I waited for him as he began climbing down the stairs, a worried look on his face. His shoulders were a little slumped, and he didn’t have his usual smile.

When he reached downstairs, he gave me a small smile, but it lacked his usual energy “Hey is everything alright?” I asked and Arthur nodded his head,

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I went closer to him and asked, “Are you sure? You don’t look okay to me.”

Arthur said in a low voice, “Well, Eros was not happy that I made him wait for two hours. He had been waiting for an important piece of information from me and I was playing around with you.”

I had to come to terms that Eros and Arthur in this life aren’t best friends. They have a work kind of relationship now.

I furrowed my eyebrows. That is so wrong. You were trying to help me and you did say that you went to his office twice.” But Arthur shrugged it off. “He is punctual and does not like latecomers. I’ll be careful next time.”

I frowned. Poor Arthur’s face looked so sad because Eros had shouted at him for nothing.

“You should really be expressive, you know. Just because he is the King doesn’t mean he can treat you like this,” I said, and Arthur quickly looked around.

“No, it’s not like that. He just seemned a little off about something Maybe all this work is stressing him. I know he needs to really get a life.

I chuckled at that. I couldn’t imagine this Eros doing anything except digging his head in the files and sitting in his office.

And my body reminded me of how his head, or rather his face had been buried elsewhere, in between my legs. I shuddered.