Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 109

Lily's

POV

"I am perfectly fine, Ren" I said for what I was sure was the hundredth time as we walked down the hallway in school. He held me carefully as if I was going to break and splatter all over the floor if he did not hold on to me.

He squinted his eyes at me and I knew that he was trying to decipher if I was lying or not, trying to cover up that I was still in pain or something and I thought that was so sweet that he kept fussing even though we both knew that I had completed my healing and the corrosion was gone.

He tried to smile at me when I made a funny face and I realized that the emotion that I saw in his eyes was worry. I might be okay now but he had come really close to losing me and it was still a lot to take in for me that I had somehow not died and had survived being in that dangerous forest.

My mind instantly went to Aiden and my heart squeezed with a funny feeling. I had not seen him for some days before I was discharged but Bia had told me how he had always come to see me every night and my heart stuttered at the mere thought of him. Ren kept quiet and watched me, obviously sensing where my thoughts were heading and I felt horrible immediately.

"I'm s-"

"Don't. Don't apologize for anything."

"But-"

"He's your mate, you can't help how you feel about him."

"But, I have you. I should be content. I should feel lucky -"

"No, I am the lucky one. Lily, if you see yourself the way I see you... damn, I'm lucky to even be in your orbit. To even have you look at me."

"Don't say that!" I slapped his chest.

"I mean it," he said, intensity swirling in his light brown eyes and I rolled my eyes playfully. "And I'll keep saying it until you believe it."

"Oh, come on. You're so stubborn."

"And you're so beautiful." He answered, getting me to laugh as he placed a light kiss on my lips and I felt a stirring in my heart and a lightness in my chest at his touch, his hands wrapped around my waist securely.

"I can't believe that you're here in my arms, Lily. That you want me. It feels like a dream, like it's too good to be true. How did I get so lucky?" He whispered against my hair as he kissed my temple and I took his face in my hands. "What can I do to make you believe that this is real? That this thing between you and I is real and that I'm not going anywhere? I'll do anything. Just tell me."

His hands around my waist tightened and I was sure that if we were not in a crowded hallway, I would have melted to the ground in pleasure as he pinned me against my locker, his eyes thick with want and gaze moving down to where I bit my bottom lip. "Anything?" He asked, his eyes darkening and I nodded, breathless from the tension between us at this very moment. The heat in his eyes was a mirror that reflected my need for him and I had to fist my hands to stop myself from on jumping him right there and then.

He took my lips in his, tugging lightly and when my hand slid down his chest, he moaned into my mouth, deepening the kiss. My senses suddenly went haywire, primal need suddenly taking control of me.

Our moment however quickly comes to an end at the sound of a familiar voice close to where we were standing. The person let out a devastated screech and we turned immediately to see that it was, Ren, using his body to shield mine.

I frowned at the girl in a bucket hat and thick dark shades, practically growling at us. She looked familiar and my heart stopped for a moment when I finally placed her face.

"Mauve?"

Her uniform looked like a mess, like she could not be bothered to even iron it and she was wearing thick shades and a bucket hat on what I realized was a shaved head because there was no presence of the fiery red hair that i had come to know her for. She looked very enraged, not as enraged as I was starting to feel because this b***h had kidnapped me, had me beaten up and left me to die in a forest ridden with ferals.

"Get out of my way, bitch." There was a crazed desperate glint in her eyes as she pushed me away from Ren and took his hand with both of hers before she fell to her knees in front of him.

My eyes twitched as jealous rage and possessiveness ignited in my blood, zeroing in on her hand on his.

"Ren! Ren, I'll do anything, I'll stop being such a selfish mate. I will stay away from everything that will harm you or us, I will do whatever you want me to do. Please, just take me back. Take me back and everything will be alright again. Take me back and my life will go back to normal. I can't live without you."

"Then don't."

She froze. Her face cracked with shock. "What?"

He shoved his hands in his pocket and bent to her level. "You said you can't live without me. Then don't. I really don't care."

"W... What?"

"I thought I made it clear when I rejected you. There is nothing left for us and our relationship was over before I even rejected you. You are still standing, so I'm going to believe that your threat to kill yourself was a lie. Just like everything about you. Just do us all a favour and get lost."

Ren grabbed my hand and started leading us away but Mauve started laughing hysterically and I knew that laugh meant she was up to no good.

"You are not even worthy to be a royal, you a*****e!" She announced to the crowd. "You're nothing! Your mother is a low life w***e, a common mistress and even she wanted nothing to do with you. Everyone should know how she left you to die." This freaking...

Even I knew that something like that was never supposed to be exposed to the common folk and that it was supposed to keep being a secret and she had just said it aloud like that?

My heart squeezed as Ren froze, his grip on my hand tightening and I watched him struggle, his entire body taut with pain that felt so real, so crippling, I nearly crumbled under the weight. It was like I was feeling it right with him, almost like a mate would. How dare she?

She was still talking and yelling at the top of her voice about how she did Ren a favour by accepting to be his mate and I had enough of this bullshit.

Kissing Ren on his cheek, I turned around and headed to where she stood and before she could complete her last sentence, I slapped her hard across the face and she gasped at the impact of the hit, holding her cheek as she looked at me in shock. "Don't you ever get sick of spewing the same s**t over and over? It's getting very annoying listening to you talk. And don't you ever talk about Ren like that again. How dare you try to use his pain again to soothe your ego?"

Her hand cradled her left cheek as her shock quickly turned to rage.

"You fucking..." before she could finish, I did something I had always wanted to do.

I punched her right in the nose and she staggered back, clutching her now bleeding nose.

"That is for what you did on my birthday."

"How dare you!" she spat and was about to raise her hand against me.

Well, at this point, i was practically f****d, because I can't fight to save my life but suddenly she froze and I realized that Ren had come to stand behind me, his presence like a warm blanket surrounding me.

He placed his hand on my lower back, the act filled with possession and Mauve's face contorted with so much envy, I could have laughed if it wouldn't ruin the serious atmosphere.

It didn't stop me from smiling mockingly at her.

She tried to speak and that was when I realized that she was not able to. She started hyperventilating, clutching at her neck, her eyes leaking with tears.

"Ren-" she tried to say, but it came out as harsh pants. "Please-"

It was easy to forget that my boyfriend was powerful enough to control every cell in her body, easy to take him for granted because he was the gentle one, the kind one, but he was still the son of a ruthless alpha with incredible powers. "Do not raise a hand against my girlfriend again." She screamed in pain, collapsing on the floor and clutching her arm. "If you value all your body parts intact."

I felt warm all over. Ren hadn't even bothered to defend himself, he was defending me.

Ren took my hand gently in his and inspected my bursted knuckles, the pain only now registering in my brain.

He tsked and pressed a hand on my back, turning me around and leading me away, and the crowd parted for us to walk through.