Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 94

Mauve's

pov

"I used to be the prettiest thing in the school, do you know that?" I said, to no one in particular because the only person that could have answered was lying still, unconscious on Paige's bed. If it wasn't for the rise and fall of her chest, I would have thought that she I wished she was dead.

was dead.

Lily Beauregard. The girl who was responsible for my sudden and swift decline. The person who walked into Shadow cove academy and ruined my entire life just by existing.

Her eyes fluttered close and I wanted to barf at how angry I felt.

She was wearing a new uniform today and better shoes. It had to be Ren. It had to be him. He was so used to rescuing strays, to caring for the less privileged and saving those who he thought were beyond redemption.

I guessed that was why when he started to have this sort of fascination with her, I didn't bother because I thought she was just another charity case. I thought she was like me.

Ren had cared for me once. He had never loved me, but his sense of duty had been strong and steadfast in our bond and I had known that he would keep trying to make us work solely because of his values. He wanted the mating bond desperately, to prove to everyone that at least, he could do one thing right.

In the relationship, his gentle selflessness was what I loved the most about him. And now that was all gone. Vanished. And it was thanks to one person.

"Even though I was the prettiest, I used to think that there was something about the brotherhood bit because Ren, Zac and even Aiden were not attracted to me. Not even in the slightest. And I can promise you that it was not from lack of trying." I sighed and played with a strand of her hair. "So tell me, why are you somehow involved with all three of them? What are you telling them? What are you saying to them that I did not say? And why does Ren want to stay with you?" I whispered the last part, hating how it was so easy for her to get everything that I had used years to work for.

What did Ren see in her that he didn't see in me? What did Zac? Aiden?

I clenched my fists.

Fighting the urge to scream my lungs out, I sat on the chair, hating the hollow feeling in my chest that was a reminder of how I had found myself here right now, with a kidnapping case on my hands.

Ren had done what I thought he would never be able to do and Lily was responsible for all of it.

I clenched a fist to my chest as I remembered how I had woken up two nights ago and thought I was having sleep paralysis. I could not talk, could not move and felt like I was trapped in my own mind. Not a single limb would move at my command, I was stuck in a deep exhale and slowly running out of oxygen.

Panicking, I managed to lower my gaze to find someone sitting in the dark on the chair beside my bed, his cold eyes illuminated by the rays of moonlight entering the room.

"Who is that? Who are you?" I thought in my head, realizing with horror that I could not move my mouth but then again I did not need to because the stranger rose from the chair and walked towards the bed and I saw his face.

Silver white hair, that ethereal fae beauty that made him the prettiest boy I have ever met, light brown eyes that seemed to glow with a predatory glint in the dark.

It was Ren. But there was no trace of the kind, soft hearted boy that I knew.

The last time I had seen him had been at his house, a few hours ago, when I created a scene and stormed out, halting the rejection ceremony that he had planned behind my back.

"You disrespected my mother in front of members of the council. Disrespected our family name," he sighed, stepping closer to me and looking down at me with a frigid, ruthless gaze. "Bad move, Mauve."

I tried to talk. Tried to breathe. I couldn't.

He touched something on my dresser, fiddled with one of the countless expensive gifts he had bought for me. Gifts I displayed on my dresser, to brag about for all my friends to see.

"Hm, I thought you threw this out. This too. I see you kept my letters. Burn them. Or better still, I'll be taking these-"

He was practically talking to himself now, taking his sweet time as if he wasn't holding me hostage.

My lungs hurt. My cells were crying out in pain. I was struggling to exhale but my lungs were not cooperating.

Suddenly, he pulled out a small stool, sat beside the bed and watched me quietly in a way that, for the first time, truly terrified me.

I always knew that he was powerful, but unlike Zac and Aiden who had the heart and stomach for cruelty, Ren had never given any inclination that he was capable of evil. Right now, though, he looked ready to cause harm. Cold, calculated murder. His eyes were bored and detached as he leaned closer to me and I could only look at him, knowing that he was the reason why I was paralyzed.

"Did you know that with just one snap of my fingers, all of the air in your lungs will slowly leave until there is nothing left? I don't need to lift a finger to snuff out your life so that I can finally be free of you. All I need to do is keep you in this position for three more minutes."

He was toying with me. Getting a rise out of my fear and panic. Like a cat, playing with its food.

Even if I wanted to answer any of his questions, I could not, the air from my lungs gradually seeping out as he maintained eye contact with me and it felt like my lungs were no longer my own. I started feeling dizzy and my entire body trembled as I struggled to keep my eyes, the only part of my body that he left under my control open.

My lungs squeezed harder and terror like never before engulfed me as I realized that Ren would actually kill me if I did not let him go.

"Now, I am going to release you and you will take my hand and repeat the words after me, Mauve. You will do it because you know that keeping me in this sham of a mate bond will only end with one or the both of us dead. Do you understand?"

When I nodded, I felt his hold on me disappear and even though I knew I could move if I wanted to, I remained still, tears trickling down my cheeks as he started to speak the words and I said them after him and when we were done, he whispered the final words that broke my heart into a million pieces.

"I accept the rejection."

My entire body shook with sorrow as he pressed a soft kiss to my forehead. A crack the size of an earthquake fissured my heart, it felt like something was ripping out my soul.

As he walked out of the door, I watched him pause and I thought he was about to come back and kill me after all but he only spoke.

"For what it's worth," he sighed, "I wish things had been different. I wish you did not have to make me resort to this but thank you for cooperating with me."

My fists clenched around my blanket as venomous rage flickered in my blood

"And if you even think about going near Lily or touching one strand on her head, I will hand you over to Aiden to do whatever he wants with you."

My blood chilled because I would rather die by Ren's hand than even go near Aiden.

And when Ren left, it finally hit me. I had been so confident after the mating bond that I did not realize that a day would come when Ren would want to be free of me. I had taken him for granted over and over again and now he was gone and I was back to square

one.

I was no longer mated to a prince of Shadow cove.

I was back to being a mateless wolf. No. Even worse, a rejected omega.

I was back to the bottom that I had so desperately tried to rise above.

I was back to being the ragged daughter of a drug addict stripper.

And all I could think about as I stared at Lily's form was how it didn't matter what Ren told me.

I had already lost it all so dying was better than being an outcast.

If I was going to go down, then Lily was going down with me.

We would go to hell together, even if I have to kiss the devil's feet to make sure of it.