Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 106

Mauve's

POV

We were in an abandoned stadium in the far east corner of the school, away from the eyes of any school authority that could save me even if they wanted to grow a pair and go against a prince. The stadium was where the boys made a public show of dealing with people who had crossed them, the rest of the students would watch on for their own sick entertainment.

I used to be part of the crowd. Cheering the boys on. I never thought a day would come when I would be the one in the arena.

If I had been just a bit sensitive enough today, perhaps I could have realized that what I was feeling, that ominous feeling had been warning me that something terrible was about to happen.

And now as one of the boys that came with Aiden forced me to my knees in front of him, just a few feet from where he was sitting on a beat up sofa majestically like the king of the school which he rightly was, I opened my mouth to beg but didn't even know which of my crimes had made him bring me here.

It couldn't be Lily, could it? Aiden didn't care about anyone but himself and occasionally, his best friends. He HATES Lily, he approved of hurting her.

He didn't even look angry. Just numb and cold, like something had snapped in him and that terrified me even more because when Aiden got cold, people suffered. People broke.

When he got cold, his wrath doubled.

And Ren wasn't here to stop him like he usually does. To calm him down.

Where the fuck is he?!

My entire body was covered in cuts and bruises from being dragged on the ground all the way here like a rug by his shadow hounds and I had realized after Ren broke our bond that I had gone back to healing slower than normal, which was normal for omega wolves, another reason why Lily had to pay for what she had done to me.

"Please, whatever I did, let me know and I'll make it right" I said, still trying to maintain an aura of calmness because a crowd had already formed to watch this and I was not ready to show them weakness.

If Aiden heard me, he didn't respond. Instead one of his minions brought out a clipper and looked at him for something which I realized with horror was him asking for approval.

Hands immediately going to my fiery red hair, I shook my head vigorously, my steel facade finally cracking.

"Please, just tell me what I did and I'll change it. Please, Aiden. You know me. I will do whatever you want but don't cut my hair. Please." I started screaming as the boy started advancing towards me, quickly trying to crawl back but two other boys grabbed me and forced me back on my knees. Aiden didn't even look one bit affected, just nodded at his boys to continue and I realized that the only reason I ever found his cruelty attractive was because I was never the victim.

"The council will hear about this. You are a prince but even you know that this is bullying and forceful use of your power and harming anyone mated to any of the royals is punishable by death!" I yelled, tears streaming down my face and that seemed to get to him because he raised his hands and the boy with the clipper paused what he was about to do.

He grinned darkly, shadows dancing in his eyes.

"Well then, going by what you said, you should die today, Mauve for daring to touch my mate. You are no longer mated to Ren so I can do whatever I want with you, but on the other hand, Lily is very much my mate, one who I want very much and you touched her. Do you remember or do I need to remind you?"

All the colour drained from my face as shocked silence ensued around the abandoned stadium.

W-what did he just say?

Lily was... Lily was his mate? Did Paige know this? Sebastian?

My heart was a feral beast, knocking on its cage. I could hear my heartbeat pounding in my ears as I went pale in fear amd shock.

I started to shake my head immediately. That could not be possible. Lily was Aiden's mate? The reality just kept getting worse.

"No, please, I didn't know she was your mate, Aiden. I thought Lily was just a w***e, trying to steal my boyfriend..." I could not finish because one of the boys punched me and I gasped at the blow.

"Don't talk when he's talking, b***h" He growled and I could only nod, watching as Aiden's smile vanished once again and his eyes moved away from me to the crowd.

"You were nothing, Mauve, a nobody without a penny to your name and a drug addict mother who serviced men for a living."

As he spoke, clips of me being bullied, abused and picked on, with my ratty dull hair and tattered clothes were displayed on a giant screen for all to see, a screen that I had not even noticed until now, much to my horror and I was forced to watch how I had once lived.

From crying as somebody forced me down to lick the soda I spilled on his shoe, to me in a bathroom, begging a group of girls to not take my lunch from me, to my mother stripping in a strip club. Every dark part of my former life was on display for all to see and everyone was snickering and laughing.

I let out a choked sob as the laughter increased. Humiliation and shame settled like a bag of bricks on my shoulder.

"When my best friend found out you were his mate, despite my warnings that you were nothing but trash and would only hurt him, he did his best to accept you and change everything about you and the best thing you could do in return was cheat, lie and take him for granted. I can forgive all of that, I can forgive you hurting him over and over again but I will never forgive you for daring to touch my mate. Shave it off. Every single thing on her head."

I didn't even struggle, so weak and stunned as my hair was shaved and the strands fell to the ground around me and the back ground videos of me being bullied that Ren had done his best to get off the internet kept playing.

It felt like I was drowning and everyone above water was just watching and laughing at my demise and all I could do was watch, more tears trickling down my cheeks.

Crossing his legs, Aiden narrowed his eyes, playing with a tendril of shadow he had conjured with his fingers.

"I stayed up all night, wondering what punishment would be fitting for a has been queen like you. Someone that used to be prey and when she became predator chose to be even worse. I thought about breaking your legs over and over so that you would never ever experience what it felt like to be a werewolf again so that everytime you heralded, I would break it again. I thought about humiliating you in front of the entire school, whose validation you cherish so much and strip you of your queenship. I thought about having people beat you until you were within one inch of your life or sending you to the forbidden forest like you did to Lily. So many options. So many choices."

He sighed and levelled a frigid gaze at me. "Because I could not decide, it seems I'll just have to do it all."

And then he snapped his fingers and the boys pushed me to the ground, one of them, one of the boys on the hockey team that had been dying for my attention sneered in my ear, "no hard feelings, sweetheart. Aiden threatened to hurt me if I didn't comply." I would have laughed because once, I used to one of the people these boys were scared of hurting but how the tables had turned and the scream that came out of my mouth when they began stomping on my left knee cap and beating me up was filled with agony. I begged them to stop over and over but they didn't, not until Aiden raised a hand for them to stop, his shadow hounds forming from the shadows again.

"I'll give you a 30 seconds head start before I set my beasts on you, exactly like you did to Lily and you will run into the forbidden woods like you told her to do and you will spend the night there. If you survive the night, then I will forgive all the things you have done to her and to Ren, give you back your scholarship and give your mother her job back. Of course, I don't expect you to, since you're just an omega," he grinned maliciously. "But if you do survive, I expect you to return to school and continue attending classes because I want you to experience what it feels like to live in misery just like the old days. This is more mercy than you deserve but I will do this because you were mated to my best friend once. However, should you change course or try to come out of the words before dawn, my hounds will tear you apart. Do you understand me?"

Goosebumps sprouted on my skin.

I nodded shakily, my head throbbing from sobbing and my body aching as it tried to repair itself and as I tried to rise to my feet on my right leg, he grabbed my chin and forced me to look at him. "One more thing."

Dark grey eyes like thunderstorms and rain clouds pierced into my skull before he leaned in to whisper. "The dark witch. I need their name."

"I... I don't know what you are..."

His hand tightened around my throat and I knew that if I didn't speak, all bets were off and he'd just kill me now.

"Don't even think about lying to me." He whispered and I cried as his claws dug into my neck. "Give me the name of the dark witch that helped you and Sebastian to scramble the minds of those students and thugs. Ren doesn't believe you were in on it but I know better. Now," he squeezed harder. "His name."

"Ammon. His name is Ammon and he lives in the human realm." I answered, out of breath and he finally let me go.

"You have fifteen seconds left to start running, Mauve."

Nobody told me to get the f**k out of there.