Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 85

Ren's POV

I sighed as I laid Aiden down on the king size bed in his gigantic room.

Growing up thick as thieves, Aiden had had it in his head that his home was meant to be a home away from home for both Zac and I. Because of that, he made sure he catered to the various aspects of our hobbies and passion.

There was a large king size bed draped in his favourite colours of dark blue and silver. There was a velvet-upholstered reading nook, nestled within an alcove near the window, with a plush armchair and a small side table topped with a brass reading lamp. There was an adjoining kitchenette, decked with state of the art kitchen equipments, an area in the house I'm sure as hell he never uses, because the buffoon couldn't cook to save his life. There was a small bar stacked with his favourite spirits and expensive wine and a living room area complete with a play station set and flat screen tv.

There was a shelf filled with all his favourite books, so that he didn't have to leave to go to the library on the other side of the house. An easel and art supplies were still on the balcony right outside his room where I liked to sit and draw at night and a small recording studio complete with a baby piano, acoustic guitar and noise cancelling headphones in a corner of the room where Zac worked on his songs.

I didn't even know he still held on to these sentiments. I hadn't been here in so long, I thought that he'd have done away with a lot of these things by now.

I set to work, slowly unbinding the messy dressing that Aiden must have used to try to seal up the wound when it didn't heal like he expected it to, definitely a nasty surprise and an unwelcome experience for the cruel prince.

I took a harder look at the wound and nearly facepalmed myself in exasperated. The i***t had even tried to stitch the wound with what looked like regular thread meant for fabric and clothes and not the surgical, biodegradable one that was meant for body stitches. He's a working bio hazard to his own self sometimes.

I sighed and listed out a couple of items for Zac to help me replace in the house.

I knelt beside him after Zac left and pressed a hand to his forehead, lowering his temperature and taking away his pain. It was the least I could do since I needed to cleanse the wound before any healing could be done so that I wouldn't close up infection inside his body.

"You're an i***t, you know that?" I mumbled as he reached out and took my hand, clasping it tightly in his while he mumbled incoherently in his fever induced state.

I didn't realize that the door leading to the living room area of his bedroom was slightly opened since we had just headed straight to his master bedroom through his favorite door and my nose caught unfamiliar scents that made my hackles rise in worry and I headed there immediately, right after I made sure that he was stable enough for me to leave him.

My eyes widened as I walked into the living room and found not one but four boys bound together in front of the sofa with their hands tied behind their back and their ankles equally tied. Black bags were over their heads, making it hard to identify who they were but from their uniforms they were clearly from the academy and one of them was even wearing the Gold crest uniform which meant that they were our schoolmates.

From the sounds they were making, it was obvious that beneath the bag they had been gagged and I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion and worry trying to understand what Zac and Aiden had been up to in the last couple of hours and why these boys were just abandoned here.

What could have happened?

There was no way I was going to go near them and ask so I turned around and headed back to the bedroom and found that while Zac had dropped some of the supplies that I had asked for, he was not in the room and Aiden was in no frame of mind to answer the long list of questions I had about the boys that were tied in his room..

Touching his forehead, I realized that he was burning up again and quickly got to work. Deciding I couldn't wait for Zac any longer because I didn't like the way his wound was starting to look even worse the longer it was exposed to air, I found one of his This was definitely uncharted territory for Aiden who was used to either healing quickly by himself or having me take care of him when he's hurt.

The wound looked even worse than it smelled and I frowned when Aiden winced.

"Why the hell did you not get a healer to treat this, Aiden? What were you planning to do? Pretend everything was okay and wait it out? Until when? Until you drop dead thanks to your stubborn pride?"

I waited for him to answer and was surprised that for once, he did not have a smart a's comeback.

He winced again as I cleaned the wound and I was starting to feel terrible for scolding him when he was in severe pain until he spoke, his voice sounding hoarse and drowsy.

"Did you f**k her?" He murmured, but it was more than enough for me to hear and immediately he asked, my mind went to the passionate kiss that Lily and I had shared, not once but twice, in her room. Her beautiful face, her flushed cheeks, hazel green eyes glazed with lust, her body wracking with pleasure and I felt my entire body spark with desire as I remembered her shy smile and big doe eyes, her face flushed and heart thumping as loudly as my own was.

My wolf became restless again and all I wanted to do was be right next to her and hold her close. Maybe kiss her a few times and mark her if she'd let me.

"You're going to pretend that you didn't hear me, aren't you?" Aiden added and I leveled him with a cold gaze.

"What I do with Lily is none of your business."

I didn't know how he managed to pull a know it all smirk with his pale face right now but he did, staring at me with curiosity that spelled only trouble.

"Her eighteenth birthday is next week, do you know that?" He asked, his smirk going even wider like he knew a secret that I didn't. I didn't like it one bit.

"Yes, Aiden, I know that. What's your point?" I answered, quickly irritated and worried that Aiden seemed to know information about her which meant that he had searched for it. I hoped with everything in me that the only reason he was so fervent in getting every information about Lily stemmed from hate and not obsession like I knew I was with Lily.

"My point is," He winced when I covered the wound but I knew that he wouldn't stop speaking even though I somehow managed to tie his mouth because he was that troublesome. "Omegas awaken their dormant wolves at eighteen years and Lily might be one of them. Has it never occurred to you at least once that her mate would be found and she'd accept him, leaving all your hard work to rot?"

"You should focus all of this energy towards healing, Aiden." I replied, trying to steer away the conversation because it felt like ash settling on my tongue as I realized bitterly that he was right.

"And you should be worried, my friend because even though you are fine with rejecting your mate, what makes you think that Lily would do the same?"

I hated how easy it was for Aiden to get to me and I growled.

"I love her, okay?" I said, levelling him with a cold gaze. "I love Lily and that's never going to change, even if she replaces her own mate. I'll always be by her side regardless of who she has on her other arm."

Aiden's eyes widened perceptively before narrowing into a furious gaze. His voice was cold. Chilling. "What?!"

"You heard me." I shrugged, meeting his arctic gaze with one of mine. "And I will never regret rejecting Mauve for her. I hope you got the answer you were looking for."

Aiden looked absolutely livid and if he wasn't so injured, he might have started a fight with me a long time ago.

"You know she's just using you, right? She has never had anyone pay attention to her before, that's why she's entertaining you-"

"Trust me, Aiden, I'd know if she was using me. Now, be quiet and conserve what's left of your strength."

His livid gaze could cut through ice and I knew he was about to give me a piece of his mind when Zac strolled into the bedroom, sipping what I was certain was blood from a slushy cup, probably from the supply Aiden kept for him. Zac usually drank from either of us so it stunned me to see him drinking from a cup with a straw.

I was about to ask why but Zac must have seen the look on my face as passed me the bag of materials I needed to clean Aiden up. He crashed into an armchair against the wall, his movements languid and lazy as he shrugged. "Aiden has already lost too much blood today and as for you..." pitch black eyes narrowed at mine. "If I feed on you, I might just drain all of your blood just to spite you for making out with Lily."

He answered with an easy smile but the dead cold look in his eyes told me that he was definitely not joking and I felt apprehension fill my lungs because the last thing I needed was Zac also fascinated with Lily. Also possessive of her.

I was sure that he hated her before but... how did his feelings for her change?

I knew I shouldn't have let him drive Lily home. They looked pretty chummy when I had showed up at Lily's home.

Aiden had dozed off so I felt comfortable enough to ask Zac what was going on with him and Lily without his interference and I was about to speak when Zac suddenly stood, a wicked gleam in his eyes as he looked at the door at his bodyguards who entered the room, dragging along with them two burly men.

Confused, I looked at Zac with my eyebrows raised.

"What is going on here?"

Giving me a bright smirk as he cracked his knuckles and neck.

"You can say that the party is just getting started."