The Beta’s Regret

(Alice's Pov)

My hands tightened around Eden's neck, and the anger I felt from the moment I saw Eden standing beside Pison flooded me again.

I was tired of seeing her nasty little face everywhere. Everything in me wanted to jump on her and claw at her face but I held myself back.

For a moment, when I stood before Pison, I was reminded of the days Eden and I spent together as friends. Our childhood wasn't bad, in fact we had a great relationship as friends, Eden, Nova and I, we were inseparable. Out of the three of us, I was the most introverted. I was so shy I couldn't look others in the face. But with Nova and Eden I always felt at home, comfortable like they were my real sisters.

I loved both of them as much as I loved myself, especially Eden. Unlike Nova who had a little average life because her parents worked as servants in the palace, Eden and I went through a further rough patch. We were Omegas, the lowest of the runt and were constantly bullied in high school.

But Eden never allowed this to quench her spirit. I admired her for that as it also gave me courage to continue living my life.

Eden was my favorite.

However, everything changed after Eden got rejected by Theo, and found a new mate almost immediately.

And to make it worse, it was Eros, the most charming hybrid in the whole realm.

The same Eros I had an undying crush on. It was almost as if Eden took him away from me, even though he was never mine to keep in the first place.

I was mad. Not only did Eden get a mate before me, but she also got a second chance mate, someone more powerful and captivating than the last.

I became desperate. What was it about Eden that made her so special? she was just like me, but she always attracted good things while no one looked at me!

When I found out that Eden and Eros had mated, I tried hard to be happy for her, but I just couldn't.

How could I when things were about to become more difficult for me?

It started with how Eden stopped hanging out with me. She also began to wear expensive clothes and lookmore beautiful.

People no longer picked on her because Eros was quick to come to her defense. Besides, no one wanted to anger the prince and his friends.

The toughest part of it all was when Eden became friends with Beauty, Adonis and Arthur. She had friends that were way cooler than me, and it was really painful to see. She slowly forgot about me. As always, Nova was quick to adapt quickly to the changes that Eden made, but I couldn't.

Knowing how much Eros loved Eden, I decided to let go of my feelings for him, and I would have, if only they had treated me better.

I remember how I would try to sit with them at lunch in the school cafeteria, hoping that Arthur, the only other hybrid without a mate, would look at me.

But it didn't work.

It was almost as if I was invisible, like I didn't exist. No matter how hard I tried, or how wide I made my smile and batted my lashes, nothing worked. Soon, my frustration and sadness began to grow into anger and hatred for Eden. It wasn't something I could control, no matter how hard I tried.

Even though I tried to deny it, I was jealous. So jealous that it suddenly felt like a part of me had died. I wanted everything that Eden had, even though she was beautiful before, at that time Eden began to transform into a hybrid. She was as gorgeous as them, her confidence and power grew...

At first, I tried to convince myself that things would get better over time and would slowly find myself with them, but that thought washed away with time as I became a lonely omega surrounded by people who cared less about me.

I began to slip away, slowly into my own darkness. I was desperate to find happiness but it seemed as if the more I searched, the further it moved away from me.

At one point, it felt as if the life was being chocked out of me. Helpless, I started training at home to help myself feel better. And the more I trained, the better I got at it. Then Lyra came by.

She was different. She didn't look at me with pity or treat me like a side piece as before. She became a friend who saw me for what I was.noveldrama

So, when Lyra asked that I betray Eden and kill her, I didn't hesitate. It was if she knew exactly what I wanted, to get rid of Eden. Regardless, Eden never saw my betrayal coming...

Life has been going so well for me. When Lyra never returned after the war, and was declared dead by our spy. I was happy because finally Pison would see me.

And he did. I seduced him one night

and since then we began to have sex everywhere. Last night, we had a mind-blowing one, as he took me roughly making me scream my lungs loudly. Everyone in the palace heard me... heard our moans and

groans.

I was confident that he never had such bliss with any of his concubine, and so he was going to consider me worthy to rule beside him.

But suddenly Eden shows up to ruin my one chance at becoming Queen? No way!

I want her dead, and I don't care if Pison punishes me. He'll forgive me after I ride him to climax...

But as my grip tightened on Eden's neck, she began to laugh slowly, and then hysterically.

I frowned in confusion. Is she crazy?