Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 24

Lily's pov:

One moment, the boy in front of me had a smile on his face and the next, he looked like he was seeing an apparition.

I watched as the emotions of the gorgeous boy that held my shoulders changed from confusion to disbelief and then to sudden rage, his chasm like eyes darkening with anger as he looked at me and instantly, I knew that something was wrong. His arms tightened on my shoulders until it was almost crushing my scapula and I winced in pain as he called a name that I had never heard before in my entire life. "Callista." He growled, his grip on me, tight. The look in his eyes, wild.

I tried to move away from him but it only ends in one of the milkshakes in my grasp slipping from my hand and spilling all over his shoes.

"You're hurting me," I gasped but instead of making him move away, his anger intensified as he sneered at me, his eyes darkening to a point that I was sure his wolf was going to jump out any minute and tear me apart.

"I thought I killed you, Callista. Why won't you stay dead?" He snapped and my eyes widened in surprise because he called me that name again with so much conviction, I had to look around to see if there was anyone else besides me that he was speaking to. Was he hallucinating? He probably was because I had never met him before and I did not have the slightest clue what he was going on about, which made me even more scared that this was happening to me.

"I don't know what you're talking about!" I cried out, tears streaming down my face as the pain in my shoulders became unbearable. "Please, let me go."

He looked at me with a mix of confusion and disbelief, and for a moment, I thought he was going to release me. But then his expression hardened again, and he spoke in a voice that was barely a whisper, but laced with venom.

"If you're not Callista, then who are you?"

"My name is Lily," I managed to say, my voice shaking. "I don't know what's going on. Please, just let me go."

He stared at me for a long moment, his eyes searching mine as if trying to find the truth.

I could see people already watching us and I wondered how long they were going to keep talking about this one because since I started at Shadow cove academy, it seemed like there was a magnet inside the badge of my uniform that always seemed to attract trouble wherever it was.

"I am not Callista or whoever you think you are seeing. Please let me go. My name is Lily and if you are doing this because I bumped into you then I am very sorry. Please, please release me. I am Lily. I am not Callista." I said in a rush of pain and desperation as I struggled in his hold and when he released his hold on me, I honestly thought he believed me and was ready to let me go, but as I moved to walk past him, struggling with the burden in my hands, he blocked me and growled again, his face still filled with anger that made me take a step back.

"I don't care what you claim your name is or who you claim to be masquerading around as now and I'll leave you be with your pretense. But first you will clean up the mess that you made." He said, gesturing to his shoes.

Pink slush had splattered on his black vans.

I swallowed.

"It was an accident and if you had let me go, this would not have happened." I answered as reasonably as I could but it only seemed to annoy him more.

"Let you go?" He said in a dark voice that made me take a step back. He grinned at me, his smile filled with menace.

I took a step back. "I- I don't know what you want me to do." I gestured helplessly. "I don't have a rag or-" "Lick it off."

I looked at him, shocked. "What?"

"Did I stutter?"

"I don't-"

"Use your tongue to clean up your mess."

I heard whispers around me from those watching but the one thing I heard loud and clear was his name.

"She just had to go and mess with Zac Talaverra after messing with Aiden. Talk about a walking trouble magnet."

My eyes widened to saucers as it sank in, realizing the gravity of this entire situation.

I was standing in front of the Zac Talaverra, the last lycan prince of Shadow cove. I had heard so much about him but he was so mysterious, even people could not exactly say they knew anything about him besides the fact that his family was the most ruthless in the human world and ours. The Talaverra name was enough to instill fear in even the mightiest of men.

God, I had the shittiest luck. Why could I not run into someone less threatening? First it was Aiden, and then I ran into Ren who was nice to me. Zac seemed to fall in the other category, the Aiden category and I could feel my hands that were still filled with the snacks begin to shake.

"I'm so sorry for the spill. Perhaps there is something that I can do..."

"You can kneel" was his response and he grabbed me and forced me down to my knees in front of everyone who was already more engrossed in the show than their meals.

The snacks I had tried my hardest to bring back in one piece fell and scattered all around us.

He shoved his shoe in my face and my eyes were filled with tears.

"I don't have all the time in the world, poison, regardless of what it looks like. And you're wasting it. Trust me, you don't want to waste my time or you-"

"Get away from her!" That was Rhea's voice.

My gaze focused on Rhea, Ren and Chelsea, making their way over to us.

"Princess," Zac said, with a sneer. "Stay out of this."

Rhea and Chelsea paid him no mind and helped me up to my feet, Rhea collecting the snacks from the floor and giving it to another girl to take it back to the table.

"Zac, that is not who you think it is." Ren said, standing in front of him as he tried to block Zac's view of me.

"She looks exactly like Callista." Zac growled.

"But she is not, okay?" Ren said, a cold edge to his voice. "Drop it."

"I'll drop it when she drops dead." He said in a voice that was so cold and menacing, I shivered.

"Stop being such a dumbass." Rhea grumbled, rubbing my back gently and I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.

"Stay away from me," he warned, his voice cold and detached. "If I see you anywhere around me, I will kill you myself and this time, I'll make sure you stay dead. Doppelganger or not."

Those words... The look in his eyes. He meant it. He meant every word.

And with that, he turned and walked away, leaving me standing there, shaking and terrified, wondering what the hell had just happened.

The embarrassment was too much for one person to bear at this point. When was this going to end?

One of the guys that I knew was in Mauve's clique walked over to him, shoving his hands in his pockets and giving him an easy grin.

"Welcome back, Bro. And yeah. That girl is Lily Beauregard. I'm sure her surname is familiar, right? That's because she is he daughter to Edgar Beauregard, the traitor that was executed for his crimes. She is on scholarship here with us and you have to be nice, yeah, I mean she is not well to do like the rest of us, but she has proven herself with bringing us snacks that she wants to belong so we have something special planned for her." When he finished speaking, he looked at me with a smile that I didn't understand but didn't bother to question since he had technically defended me by saying the truth about how I wasn't some other girl that Zac obviously had a score to settle with.

Zac turned stared at me again, his face twisting into a disgusted sneer. Like he was looking at trash. "Get out of my sight." He growled. "I'm going to throw up if I have to look at that ugly face again." He looked at me like he truly was going to throw up. His words felt like a slap to the face and was only compounded by Aiden's laughter as well as the laughter of the people around him as he added

"Seriously," Aiden guffawed, "She's the ugliest b***h I've ever seen." He said, cackling hard, the other people sitting around him doing the same thing.

The tears that I had been struggling to hold fell and even though Rhea and Chelsea tried to hold on to me, I shrugged them off, casting one last look at Ren's sad face. "Lily," he reached out to me.

I turned around and fled.

The sound of laughter at my expense as they welcomed Zac back to the table was the last thing I heard as I ran out of the cafeteria, tears staining my cheeks.