Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 127

Aiden's

pov

For the first time in a long time, my sleep had been dreamless and peaceful. I had forgotten what that felt like. The peace that came with it and when I opened my eyes and saw that Lily was still here, I knew that there was a reason that I had slept well. Curled into a ball, the blanket still covering her and most of her hair now covering part of her face, Lily was still fast asleep and I felt a sudden lightness that I didn't know was possible. Cerberus was perched on her pillow, licking her forehead and I wanted to laugh at Lily's disbelieving face when I had told her that Cerberus was the most vicious of my hounds.

It said a lot about him that he had chosen to appear to her in the form of a puppy instead of the ferocious beast that he was and when he raised his head to look at me, I nodded in thanks to him because he had unintentionally helped me get closer to Lily, and it was a gift that I would treasure for a long time.

Her words still resonated in my mind from last night. Everything about last night was still fresh in my memory and when I looked at her again and saw that the ring I had given her still remained in her finger and that she had not taken it off, my heart squeezed with a foreign feeling that I couldn't quite name yet. I felt so full of something so light.

I had been surprised when she had come to my room to check in on me instead of replaceing a way to escape and I had thought it was all a ploy to get me to lower my guard so that she would flee when I fell asleep, not that she would be able to, especially now that Cerberus was in love with her and attached to her by the hip, but still seeing her here made hope spark in my heart that she hadn't left. I know that it was probably foolish at this point to believe that it meant something that she hadn't tried to run but I was delusional at this point.

Priceless moments, she had said. "This is what matters the most to me. It helps me to see that you are more than what I know you to be and that I can one day hope to trust you"

I was going to do whatever I could to give her more reasons to trust me. Maybe then, it would be easy for her to love me. To accept me.

Leaning against my hand, I watched her with a bright smile, proud of myself for keeping to my side of the bed even though it had been a struggle all night with my wolf to not pull her close and crush her against my chest and I was glad that I had not done anything that would make her guards go back up.

Unable to resist the urge to not touch her at all, I settled for helping her remove strands of hair from her face and that was when I noticed the subtle change in her breathing and the frown that appeared on her face.

She looked troubled, her brows scrunched up in a way that made me wonder if she was having a nightmare or in pain and sweat pooled at her forehead. Was the air conditioner not working?

Reaching for the remote, I lowered the room temperature, surprised that she was sweating when the room was practically freezing and just as I reached out to place my hand on her forehead, she kicked off the blanket and whimpered and my eyes widened with horror at how hot her body was.

She was burning up with a fever.

"Lily, wake up." I said frantically, shaking her and when she didn't move, I rushed to grab my phone and called Maya to send for a healer, right before I rushed into the bathroom and came back with a wet towel, cradling her unconscious body to my chest as I placed the cloth on her head.

"Lily, please." I whispered, hating that I wasn't like Ren who could heal her with a touch of his hand. All I could do was break bones and cause death.

There was a knock on the door and the healer walked in after Maya.

"My prince." The man said with a bow.

"You need to place her on the bed so that he can examine her, Aiden." Maya said carefully when I growled at the poor man as he tried to touch her, my wolf not wanting anyone to come close. With a deep frown, I gently dropped her on the bed, not moving one inch away.

I fought down the revulsion and the urge to tear him from her, hovering over them agitatedly, at seeing the healer touch her as he examined her, but anyone would do before I can get a hold of Ren.

I watched as the healer checked her vitals, pausing at the mark on her neck and his eyes widened before he raised his head and spoke.

I watched as the healer checked her vitals, pausing at the mark on her neck and his eyes widened before he raised his head and spoke.

"She is mated to another, is she not?"

"Yes." It was Maya that answered because it seemed agreeing felt like there was ash on my tongue.

"She is suffering withdrawal symptoms from being snatched away from her mate too quickly during the nesting period. The bond they share is withering away and taking her with it. She needs to be with her mate immediately or they will both die. However, we can draw a bath of ice for now to keep her temperature low while you contact her mate."

“Come, doctor, let us draw the bath." Maya gestured towards my bathroom and the two of them bowed before they left.

Filled with rage and guilt, I stared at Lily, hating that once again this was my fault and grabbed my phone, dialing Ren's number.

He picked immediately.

"Ren, this is-"

"It's Zac, you motherfucker! Why the f**k have you been ignoring our calls? We have been trying to reach you for days. What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Something is wrong. Lily is with me and she's not waking up. I need Ren to get here as fast as he can. We can deal with our issues later. Please tell him to get here as fast as he can."

"Well, Ren will not be able to answer you right now because the exact same thing is happening to him. He felt it immediately Lily started getting sick and like the hero he is, he transfered most of her symptoms to himself through their bond. He's almost comatose right now. So if you care about your mate and your best friend, remove that stick you shoved up your a*s and tell your f*****g guards to drop the wards surrounding the pack so that I can bring him to you." And before I could answer, the line dropped dead.

All I could hear was that it was my fault and I prayed that the two people I loved the most in the world would not pay for my selfishness as I walked out of the bedroom to get the wards taken down.