Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 47

Ren's

POV

I looked at my beitling watch for the second time since I had come out to wait by Rhea's car. We were supposed to go somewhere today because it was part of our sibling ritual, as she called it, that we went somewhere fun and exciting at least once every two weeks. It was something she started doing when we were kids and even though I had been very standoffish towards the idea in the beginning, now I could not imagine not doing this ritual with her. It made me grateful that I had a sister that cared about me, someone that would always have my back no matter what.

I sighed and gazed up at this sky. Soft white cumulus clouds floated lazily in the pale blue sky.

I could paint this, I said to myself longingly. Lily would like to see me paint this.

Like every other time this week, my thoughts immediately went to Lily, even though the situation didn't necessarily call for her. I pulled out my phone and scrolled through our messages, my eyes resting on the last message that she had sent to me right before blocking me.

I ran my hand through my hair, deep in thoughts.

I had thought for so long after that message, wondering what I could have done to make her switch up on me. I had tried everything; calling and texting only to find out that she had blocked me and it had increased my anxiety, because she had to have a reason why she had suddenly wanted to stay away from me after how much I knew we had enjoyed each other's company.

It was even harder to see her at school and it felt like she was avoiding me on purpose. What confused me even more was not knowing what I had done, what sin that she believed that I had committed so that I could rectify it.

And she was always so far away and closed off so I couldn't pry into her mind with my powers. It was something I didn't like resorting to, especially for someone like Lily that had a lot of traumatic memories and experiences but I was at my wit's end.

I was desperate at this point. I needed to know what I had done wrong so that I could fix it.

I was so concerned about it that I had gone through the scholarship files just to find her home address so that I could pay her a visit. But at the last minute, right as I was about to leave, I had gotten out of the car and gone back upstairs to my bedroom, worried that it would look very intrusive to show up at her house when she wanted nothing to do with me anymore.

I didn't want to push her boundaries.

It hurt to not even be able to hear her voice. To have her close to me. I missed her.

Looking back up at the clouds, I pocketed my phone and sighed, hoping she was alright when I suddenly felt her presence approaching.

Jesus.

My body immediately started having a weird reaction at the idea of seeing her again. My heart was racing a mile a minute, my hands sweaty, my belly filling with anticipation and nervousness since this was going to be the first time in a while that I had seen her, but the smile on my face quickly dimmed when I took in her state.

She looked exhausted, like she had not slept well in days, her cheeks stained with tears and eyes red and swollen like she had been crying for a long time. Immediately, I turned on my abilities and was assaulted with the ferocity of her emotions and thoughts. The pain and trauma that she had been exposed to for the past three days hit me like an arrow to the heart and I gasped as the force of her thoughts barrelled into me, nearly knocking me off my feet.

I saw the hesitance in the way she looked at me and finally realized why she had cut me off. Her house had been vandalized the same day that we went out and she thought that I was somehow involved in it even though she still struggled to believe it herself. Given everything she had experienced, I could not blame her for distrusting me. I was about to walk towards them and pull her in for a hug when I got to the horrific parts of her thoughts.

Aiden and Zac's scent all over her like a damn perfume hit me first, making my wolf growl in rage... The memory of what they had both done to her...

I gritted my teeth as I saw the parts that brought her so much shame, she refused to lift her face up to look at me. To how my so called friends had treated her like she was nothing and used her for their own satisfaction. Zac had fed on her and touched her and had the audacity to treat her like crap immediately after. She had given Aiden a blow job. All of which was done without her full consent.

Her thoughts, her mind was playing these scenes over and over again in a never ending loop.

Oh, Lily.

I didn't know whether in this moment to appreciate how much I could see about what was done to Lily because I was disgusted. I was enraged and I felt like kneeling in front of her and begging for her forgiveness. Aiden had lured her to the studio using my name. No wonder she hated me. Knowingly or not, I had been a participant in my friends' games.

Ny nails dug into my palms, drawing blood. My entire body shaking with rage, I walked past them and started heading back into the school, to the studio, when Rhea's voice made me pause.

"Hey! Ren! Where are you going?" She asked.

I knew that if I turned around, that if I took one more look at Lily, I would go to her. Hell, I'd gather her in my arms and hold her tight and never let her go. But that could wait. I had to do something right now. I had to.

"I have something I need to take care of." I answered and didn't wait for her reply, heading towards the studio.

I pushed the door open, looking around the room and was immediately assaulted by Lily and Aiden's scent. Aira cried in rage and despair as the memory of her crying, begging that bastard flitted back into my head. The choking scent of her fear and repulsion was still heavy in this room.

There was no one here anymore but the scents of Aiden and Sebastien lingered, along with some of their other goons: Hanz, Derik and god knows who the f**k else.

I'm going to f*****g murder them.

Aira and I were both in agreement. The people that hurt Lily had to pay for what they had done.

Slamming the door to the studio hard enough that it shook at the hinges, I followed the scents down to the basement lounge which was our usual hangout spot here in school.

I could very much be a mad dog with a bone on this as I stormed all the way to the lounge. Another perk of being rich and privileged, I thought with a bitter smile.

Derik and Hanz were waiting at the door and Hanz had the audacity to put his hand on my shoulder. "You can't be here, man, Aiden is in a ba-"

It was so satisfying hearing his cheekbones crunch as my fist connected with his face, knocking him out immediately.

"What the f**k, man!" Derik bellowed.

I turned to look at him, "you slipped the note her locker. You were in on it too-"

"Don't vent your frustration on them now, Ren," a voice drawled, chilling my blood. "You know it's me that was the mastermind."

I gritted my teeth and walked into the lounge. Sebastian was at the table, snorting down lines of coke arranged on the table. He straightened up the moment he saw me, his lips pulling up into a knowing smirk.

"So this was all I had to do to get your attention, brother," Aiden said, drawing my attention back to him.

He was sitting at the bar, nursing a glass of bourbon and for the first time, there were no girls hovering around him. That didn't matter anyways. Not after what he had done.

His eyes were calculated evil, his smile, a taunting smirk.

"You raped her."

He had the audacity to raise an amused eyebrow. "She told you that?"

"She didn't have to."

Aiden placed the glass down on the bar top and pushed himself off the seat.

He stalked towards me, darkness wafting behind like a coat. "She didn't tell you how she begged? How she begged me to put my fingers in her? To make it feel good? To make her come."

I let out an anguished growl and grabbed his collar, shoving him hard against the bar, my gaze livid. "Shut up."

"You don't want to hear the truth? That the girl you have a childish crush on is actually a slut behind closed-"

My fists acted on their own, punching him hard in the gut.

Aiden doubled over, wheezing, but when his face snapped back up to look at me, he was grinning, his eyes alight with the promise of violence, blood dripping from his lips.

"Do you know she likes her hair pulled hard? She likes it rough? Come on, Ren. Why don't you peer into my mind with that fancy ability of yours, see if I'm lying or not." "You're sick," I spat. "Do you know how she feels about this after you were through with her? You forced yourself on her. Do you know what she thinks of you?!"

His lips pulled back into a bloodied sneer, "you see, that's the difference between the both of us. I don't care what she thinks of me. She deserves everything she got."

"You bastard!" I screamed and lifted him by the collar, punching him hard in the face and busting his lip. "She deserved nothing. The prophecy has not even been confirmed correct, you're taking your vengeance out on an innocent girl. You are blinded by your rage and a pathetic need to prove that you are powerful. Here's a news flash for you. Treating her like s**t won't bring your parents back. It won't bring Ashley back. You're wasting your f*****g time and the sooner you understand that and stop whining about the past like a pathetic little b***h, the better for you, for me, for everyone!"

He roared and pushed me to the ground, holding me by the throat.

Gone was the taunting smirk, the evil grin. There was nothing but pain and fear and rage now. Good. He needed to feel exactly what I felt.

"Save your lecture for someone who cares, Ren. You are the one who is blinded by your stupid crush on that w***e. You know what's funny? She will never agree to be with someone as pathetic as you are. You are better off with Mauve, brother. At least both your mothers are whores."

That was what drove me off the edge and I threw Aiden off me and grabbed his throat, hitting him over and over and over again until I was pulled off by three guys.

"Let me go!" I roared when Aiden coughed up blood to the ground and grinned.

"This is going to hurt," he announced, punching me square in the gut. Pain exploded in my abdomen. My lungs collapsed on me as I crumbled in the boys' hold.

"What? Scared that I'm voicing out your insecurities? Tell you what, next time, I'll make sure that I f**k your precious little flower like the slut that she is. Something you'll never be capable of. I'll record a video and send it to you to wank on."

I roared, shaking the entire room and, using the boys as leverage, I kicked Aiden away from me, knocking him into the bar again.

Wood splintered and decanter bottles shattered to pieces as he collapsed on them.

I struggled against the hold of the boys as Sebastian helped Aiden up and he staggered, his eyes hazy from being tipsy with alcohol.

And the last thought I had as Aiden was quickly carried out from the basement, away from me was that things would never be the same again and perhaps I had lost my best friend.