Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 99

Ren's POV

How Zac was able to drive us to the edge of the forest in a calm state without losing his cool would forever be a mystery to me because the entire ride, my eyes were brimming with tears and my hands shook violently.

This was all my fault.

Mauve had done this to Lily because of me. I should have seen this coming. Should have known that despite my warning, Mauve would try to have her revenge. She had never been one to just sit down and accept whatever situation she found herself in and I had greatly underestimated her.

Lily, please be safe, I whispered as Zac took a left turn and my entire body went cold with horror when I saw Aiden kneeling with Lily in his arms, her entire body unmoving. Jumping out of the car, I ran towards him and when he raised his head, his eyes were red and swollen and I shook my head.

"Is she dead?"

"Not yet." He whispered quietly.

"Then what are we waiting for. Let's f*****g go." Zac yelled from the driver's seat, honking wildly and when I tried to help Aiden carry Lily, he shook his head.

"I got her."

The car started and under normal circumstances, I might have told Zac to try and not kill with the way he was driving like a mad man but we were running out of time.

I was sitting in the back seat with Aiden, Lily's legs draped over my thighs while Aiden held her body to his chest.

"Please, Ren. Please do something. Please."

I nodded, my hands trembling as I reached for her hand where the bite gash had already turned black and closed my eyes again for the tenth time since I started trying. My palms glowed, my power rushed out of me, but it changed nothing.

Nothing at all. My powers did not even seem to be doing anything at all and I opened my eyes to see that the skin corrosion was starting to spread everywhere.

Lily's heartbeat grew fainter by the minute and I could not help the tear that slipped down my face as I shook my head at Aiden.

"It's not working?" Zac whispered from the front and I nodded even though he could not see me.

"No."

I had not seen Aiden cry since the day they came to tell us that his parents had been murdered. Even on the day of their burial, when we had cried for him, he had just stood there like a gargoyle, eyes dry and countenance completely removed. But now as he cupped Lily's face, tears kept streaming down his cheeks like a river, his entire body shaking with sobs as he kissed the back of her hand.

"I'm so sorry, sweetheart. I'm so sorry that this happened. Please don't leave me. Please allow me to make things right. Allow me to beg for your forgiveness. I'll do anything you want. Please just open your eyes, Lily. Please"

I could only watch in silence as my greatest fear became reality and I did not need anyone to confirm that Aiden was Lily's mate. From the moment he made that phone call to tell us where she was, I had suspected it but seeing them together, seeing nothing but sorrow and guilt in his eyes as well as unflinching loyalty and love, there was no doubt that Lily had found her second half.

But what use was the mating bond now? What use was any of this if we lost the woman we loved? Because replaceing out who her mate was changed nothing for me. I was still recklessly irrevocably in love with Lily Beauregard and felt so helpless that my powers were doing absolutely nothing.

But with the way the skin corrosion as a result of the bite was spreading, I was afraid that by the time we got to the hospital, it would be too late.

By the time we got to the hospital, owned by my parents, the rest of the gang was there along with Lily's mother and as Aiden dropped her on the stretcher and the medics wheeled her away, Lily's mother took one look at her child's decaying body and fell to her knees, her sobs nerve wracking.

Rhea was crying quietly and Chelsea held her while Bia was holding Lily's mother up, tears streaming down her face too.

Aiden and Zac looked like it was the end of the world and by the time my mother came out of the room, wearing a labcoat, I didn't wait for her to speak before I searched her thoughts, freezing as she delivered the heart wrenching news to the rest.

"I'm so sorry. We've tried everything supernaturally possible but her body is rejecting our powers. The Hawthorne abilities have proven ineffective against feral bites and I fear that there may be nothing else that we can do."

"No. I will not accept that. I refuse to accept it! Do whatever it takes to save her, Ariel. I cannot lose my mate." Aiden yelled and I saw everyone else look surprised at the news, confirming what I had suspected the entire car ride.

I watched as my mother's chin trembled with compassion but she kept her tone calm and professional.

"Yelling at me will not change the fact that our powers have not worked and will not work for her. The skin corrosion is already too much. I'm afraid that we may have to say our goodbyes at this point."

"How about we say goodbye to your establishment for not being able to save my mate?!"

My mother's eyes glowed with rage but she swallowed it up, understanding Aiden's pain.

"No. We can try something else. I can give her my blood." Zac, who had not spoken the entire time said and everyone looked at him.

It was something that no one had ever tried because werewolves and vampires were never in good relations but there was a myth that vampire blood could reverse and heal injuries and diseases. In the right doses it could accelerate the healing process, promote tissue regeneration and mend wounds that were considered humanly irreparable. It might even reverse the effects of mortal injuries and fatal conditions that should result in immediate death. It just might save Lily.

But like everything supernatural, there was a catch. If a human consumed too much vampire blood, it could lead to an adverse side effect known as "Vampirism," causing them to transition into a vampire themselves. The chances that Lily would survive the transition and become like Zac who was a wolf before he was bitten and became something other was very slim. The transition might very well kill her infact.

"Let's do it." Aiden said immediately and when Zac nodded, they both looked at my mother. I already knew from the way she stared that like me, she also did not think it would work and that it might hasten Lily's death rather than stop it.

"I cannot risk the integrity of this establishment by trying something as reckless as that. We do not even know if she will survive it or turn into something that will have dire consequences. We defy the normal laws if we try this." "f**k all of the laws, Ariel. Please save her. I'll do anything." Aiden begged. "Anything!"

Lily's mother held on to my mother, dropping to her knees as she cried hard, her shoulders and back trembling. "Please save her. Save my Lily. Do what it takes as long as I get to hold my daughter in my arms again." But would it work? Or would it backfire on us?