The Lycan Series
Bullied By The Lycan King Chapter 76

Violet's POV

A cloud of confusion settled within me as I tried to understand what she had just said; "Mom, what are you talking about?" I asked my voice barely above a whisper.

My heart was beating at a low pace, afraid to race too fast so as not to increase the dizziness I was already feeling. "What night are you talking about?"

"The night she took you from her sister," my father's deep voice echoed through the cell as he turned to face:

My eyes moved from my mom to my dad as I tried to interpret what they were saying even from their looks, but their frowns and anger told me nothing.

"I don't understand..." I whispered.

"I will make it easy for you. I will tell you the story. I really wished that it didn't come down to this and you could be a very useful tool to us but like they say, a rotten apple doesn't fall too far from the tree which produced it..." My heart was no longer beating at a slow pace. My hands were trembling, and my stomach felt funny. I had to grip the bars of their cell tight to keep myself upright.

"My sister was sent as a spy to the forgotten lands. Her mission, just like yours was to cause the death of the Lycan king that ruled there but she fell in love and returned home with you as a prize..." my mom said.

Her words were like thunderbolts that echoed in my head, hitting me so hard that it felt like a bomb had dropped on me.

"She got killed for her foolish act and you, were supposed to go with her but we thought keeping a halfling could come in handy for what we were planning but guess what, we were wrong. A halfling is nothing but an animal just like the rest of them. You are not human. You are nothing but a stupid mistake and I should have never entertained the very idea of keeping you alive!"

My heart froze and my ears started ringing. Tears fell freely down my face. It was as if the whole world was crumbling and the bars, I held were the only things keeping me alive.

"It's not true," I whispered. "You are only saying all of these because you are angry with me..."

A soft, shaky chuckle left my lips and I nodded at my own conclusion.

"It's not true. I am your daughter. I am your Violet. Your princess... I am not some halfling from the forgotten lands... I am your daughter..."

My father took a step forward and glared at me with a mocking smile on his lips.

"Why do you think we abandoned you when all hell broke loose? Why do you think we asked you to remain locked up in your room while we escaped? You think we love you?"

The trembling in my hands increased and my heart rose to my throat, wanting to leave my body. My head was screaming at me to close my ears to what my father was saying but I couldn't bring myself to stop. the things he said brought back the memories of that day.

I was in the general room trying to catch a glimpse of Axel as he worked when I noticed that something was wrong. My parents were restless. They were in a hurry to leave, and I thought they would take me with them, but they took me to my room and asked me to stay there no matter what transpired.

"No... Dad... no," I cried, refusing to change the perfect image I have always had in my head. "You love me, and you are just angry..."

"Keep telling yourself that, if it would make you feel better... But if you have any sense you will think and you will realize so many things... for example, we would have never let a child born from our flesh and blood, mingle with that child king even when he was in our custody... somehow, I had toyed with the hope that he witt kill you one day so that we could convince the people just how much evil his kind was.." he sang throwing his head back in laughter.

Mother joined him and the sound they made in unison were like shards of broken glasses aimed at my heart.

I held my hands to my head and started refusing to listen to them. Crying and begging them to stop but it only got louder.

"Guards!" my father yelled. "Take this foolish animal away from us!" He didn't stop there, he fisted his hands and punched the hold I had on the bars. The pain was numb to my body at first but by the second hit, I et go of the bars and fell to the floor. "Imagine the

stupid idea she brought, you want us to tell you where Willow is so

that we can remain locked up here forever! You fool! We shall be free, and we will burn down this entire place. I will burn down all your kind, animal! Dog!" my mother screamed, joining my father.

I felt hands on me,

but I couldn't even decide who they were until she screamed.

"Take away the trash and toss her somewhere! Foolish girl!"

My head was working at a million thoughts per second as ! rolled over all my memories, trying to replace a single contradiction to what they were saying. Rather than replace a contradiction, I found more proof of what they were saying...

If they truly hated Axel and his kind, why did they let me and him go hunting & together in the forest, if they didn't want me killed? Why did they let me hang around me all the time with barely any supervision at such an age? Did they really want me dead?

"No," I whimpered, refusing to believe their claims. It had to be a lie.

My entire life couldn't have been false. My parents had to be mine. If not, where was I going to replace my real parents? Where would I start from?

The guards led me to my room and left me by the door. I unlocked it and stepped in. As soon as it locked, the rivers of tears came rolling down.

Everything they said started replaying in my head and the room started spinning as I battled to keep their voices out. It couldn't be true, I kept telling myself. They were just angry and nothing more.

But the pain refused to go away. The tears refused to stop. my heart felt squeezed, and my lungs wanted to collapse. My vision became blurry. I started wavering and I was going to fall when the door burst open, and Sky rushed in. She ran to me and held me just in time as my body gave up and I collapsed in her arms.

"Violet!" she yelled

and that was the last thing I heard before everything turned

black.

In my subconscious I saw myself watching as the people I have grown to know as my parents, pushed me into danger, every time, hoping I never made it back home.

I finally understood why the front doors were always kept open whenever I wanted to sneak out.

Back then I thought it was an angel that left the door like that so I could see my friend but as I watched -with clearer eyes- the pages of my memories, I realized that the one I had known as my mother was the one who always left the door open.

She was the only one with the keys and every night she was the last to lock up after the maids left. She purposely left that door for me to sneak out, hoping that Axel would kill me.

Then my father had approved the silly ten-meter distance between Axel and me, plus any guard that was assigned to me. I thought it was perfect because this way, Axel and I could play as much as we wanted without the guards intervening or punishing him but now, I understood that once again, they hoped he would kill me long before the guards could stop him.

They were right. I was never their daughter. I didn't have a family. I was all alone.

As my consciousness returned, I had made peace with my pain. My eyes blinked at the white ceiling above me, and a frown covered my face as I realized that I was in the clinic.

Machines were connected to my body and as I looked around wondering what was going on, my eyes fell on Sky. Her features brightened as our eyes met and she jumped from where she sat.

"Congratulations, Violet! You have finally given the kingdom what we have been waiting for!" she exclaimed, and I raised my brows in shock. "You are pregnant Violet. You are carrying the heir of the Lycan King."