The Beta’s Regret

While the bill was being prepared, Luke gave me a reassuring smile. I smiled back at him and walked away with Eros, who the girls kept gawking at all the time.

“Please, if you need anything else, you can give me a call and I will personally come to deliver whatever you want One of the girls said, but he walked away without another glance at her or the rest of the staff.

Eros got in the car and started the ignition while I decided to first put on the seatbelt so that I would not g thrown around

the car.

I placed the gift–wrapped box on my lap and felt grateful to Luke who had thought of such a nice gesture. Surely, Eros couldn’t care less if the phone was tossed in a rag for me.

I took the seat belt’s end and tried pushing it into the lock, but it seemed stuck. I tried tugging and pulling at it, but it was of

To use.

Eros kept his hands placed on the steering wheel and was looking at the other side, clearly indicating that he wanted nothing to do with me.

Frowning, tried again, but it just won’t budge. I let out an exasperated sigh and muttered. “Can you please help with the

seat belt?”

Eros did not look at me, but his hands reached for the seatbelt and he tugged at it. When he tried locking it, it did not happen either

So he had to bend towards me a little. His hand brushed mine, and I felt a zap of energy course from the tip of my finger to all the nerve endings in my body.

The touch left me wanting more. He was so close to me, so dangerously close. His face was near my chest and his head bent down as he was struggling with the seat belt as well.

And I did not dare move with the way he was acting. I thought my body would not want him after the way he had been indifferent to me since that night. But it seemed like his touch had ignited that spark again.

I began wildly imagining how it would feel to have his lips on my bare skin again. His hair was silky soft and dense and I fought my urge to run a hand through them as I kept my hands firmly glued to the seat and let him work.

“Can you move a little?” He grunted, and I shuffled in my seat but that only pushed my chest on his face.

Eros went still for a moment and so did I. I feared he would yell at me for being purposely naughty, but he only closed his eyes and opened them again, took a deep breath, and resumed working.

After what felt like an eternity, the lock finally clicked and he pushed himself away from me with the speed of lightning, Was he that annoyed by my touch? Or did he feel disgusted or something?

I was starting to hate my body for reacting to his touch that way.

“Thanks,” I muttered, but he only turned on the ignition. This time, he instead of driving like a maniac, drove slow and nice. It was a relief that I didn’t have to worry for my life again. However, it was then, Lrealized that we had another problem.

The car was too big, and it was just the two of us and the silence felt awkward to me. I didn’t know what to talk to him, so I decided to look at the phone instead.

I slowly unwrapped the plastic wrapper and opened the box. Inside it was a brand new and shiny mobile that looked very high end and expensive, not the small, basic one I had picked.

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10:43 Fri, Oct 25 T.

I checked the box, wondering if they had somehow put in two instead of one, but there was just this one large mobile in it. Holding it in front of Eros, I said. “There seems to be a problem. They gave me an expensive one. We need to go back and exchange it

However, he did not say a word and kept driving the car. His phone was lying in the small holder and I saw another message pop up in it.

Olivia: I hope you will wear white. I’m going to wear white too. It will be fun.

I ignored the message again and let out a breath..

“Are you listening to me? There is a mistake. They probably made you pay for an expensive one when I picked a cheaper one. Can we go back, please?”

I asked, and he took such a long pause that I did not think he would

even speak.

Annoyed. I removed the seat belt and turned to look at him “What is wrong? Why are you not even talking to me?

But he only took a sharp turn, and it took me off–guard, making me slam into his arms. The unexpected turn made me fall into his lap and the car drove into a tree, slamming into it

The airbags came out, further pushing me onto his chest and I felt sandwiched in between a brick wall and a balloon.

“Shit.” He muttered and kicked the car’s door out while grabbing me by the arms. Then we both fell on the ground, but as it was a slope, slid down a little

He caught me before I would fall, but his foot slipped and I fell on him, his back landing on the ground with me on top of him

I was coughing, and I feared he might throw me off himself immediately. But he only let me regain my breath while lying deathly still

Seeing that he was not going to help me, I slowly got up and he let me. After getting up, I brushed off the dirt and muck on my body and clothes while he sprang up like a coil and surveyed the car.

“Go, dial Arthur’s number and tell him to send a car to pick us up He ordered without looking at me as he removed his coat and I saw the pristine white shirt beneath it.

The shirt fit him perfectly well and I could see his corded muscles and ripped physique hiding beneath it.

I went towards my phone and picked it but then I realized I did not have Arthur’s number.

“Eros, don’t have his number,” I said quietly.

He just pulled open the hood and began surveying the damage I know. Call from my phone,” He said without looking up and I went to retrieve his phone from the car

1 unlocked the screen with a simple swipe and I saw his inbox was open. I did not want to but there were literally a dozen or more messages, a long conversation of him with Olivia, because every other second Olivia kept sending messages.

Olivia: Please choose which one should I wear today.

The message popped up, and I accidentally clicked it open. Along with the message, she sent two images. There were two white dresses, both extremely short and revealing

My brain began imagining Olivia lying on his office table and seducing him as Eros roamed his hands over her. It flared a spark of jealousy in me and I began to tremble.

My eyes went wide at the next message I will wear just the dress nothing else. It was followed by a wink emoji.

I wanted to simply throw the phone away, but Eros’s voice brought me out of 1

my reverie “What did Arthur say?”

I shook my head and immediately dialed his mumber, but thankfully he did not pick up so I didn’t have to cook up a story.

“He didn’t pick up. I said and Eros grunted. Try again” Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

I was just about to do that when I saw that his phone battery was 15. Then I resorted to try and copy Arthur’s number, and just I was saving the number on my phone, his phone just switched off, leaving us with nothing to do.

I told him what happened, and he cursed while kicking at the car’s tire.

“What are you looking at? Let us walk!” he growled.

I furrowed my eyebrows, and it was just now I saw where we were. We were surrounded with nothing but trees.

“But I started to protest, when Eros said “I wanted to get home fast and driving through the city roads would attract a lot of attention, so I thought of going through the woods.”

It was the first long answer I had received from him in the last two days. Not that it explained why he had preferred going through the forest.

The small path was muddy, and that explained why he was driving slowly. I was so absorbed in trying to not react to his touch that I didn’t even notice where he had brought me.

“Okay,” I said meekly and fell in steps beside him. He retrieved his car keys, wallet, and a few other things while I held my phone

We began walking through the forest and I asked, “Do you remember the numbers of Beauty, Arthur, or anybody else?”

Eros shook his head. “I had them saved in my phone, which is flat right now. So let’s just walk for the next thirty minutes and we will get home soon!”