The Bully's Hated Mate
The Bully’s Hated Mate – Chapter 37

CASSIA’S POV:

I growled as I started to morph back into my human form.

My bones are scrunching and shrinking. My pained growl came out in short order. My bones broke and shrinked, stretched and ripped my muscles apart. It was like fighting myself out of a cocoon.

As I finally emerged butt naked and still bloodied, I quickly rushed into the tent, thankful that no one was around to witness my nakedness and finally able to use my human lips to do some real damage.

I grabbed a towel that had been hanging from one of the hangers and wrapped myself tightly around the fabric. I could sense that Lucius was already in the tent, and my anger sizzled even more.

“You left me.” I started, still turned around in a way that I was backing him.

I knew my face was still bloodied as it felt dry and cracked, as though mud smeared all over it. I knew it wasn’t mud, it was b***d. I wanted to hear what this shitface had to say.

I waited for a few more minutes, catching up on how many times he had the audacity to breathe.

“You left me!” I half screamed, trying to make sure that I wasn’t screaming the tent off it’s roots literally.

I whipped around, my hand holding the fabric dangerously tight over my breasts.

“You left me there, Lucius! You f*****g left me to die!” I shouted at him, walking faster than I could have imagined, jabbing a sharp claw into his chest.

I wanted to draw b***d. I wanted to cause him half as much pain as he was causing me right now, half of the pain and turmoil he had caused me over a few weeks and since the first time we actually met.

“Did you bring me there intentionally? You wanted to get rid of me, didn’t you!” I shouted at him, his head bowed as such that he stared at me with so much guilt.

The same guilt that made his tongue heavy and clamped his lips shut.

“I trusted you, Lucius! Time and time again, I have always trusted you even when I knew in my heart that I shouldn’t do any of that!” I shouted again.

My voice gained more momentum as anger flowed through my veins, thicker than the b***d that oozed out of my arms.

“You’re nothing but a coward! You’re pathetic and you’re a damn traitor.” I said, venom lacing each word as I spewed them out of my mouth.

I watched as his eyes morphed into emotions I wasn’t keen on even seeing. I hated seeing his eyes, I hated hearing his voice and most of all, I hated seeing him this way. Pitiful and broken.

He was like a toy in need of fixing and even though I was inclined to him, I didn’t want anything to do ith him right now. I didn’t want to baby him and try to understand.

He had left me there in the midst of two large grizzly bears. I could have died! And he would have moved in with the next available girl that walked past him.

It would have solved his problem even. He won’t have to think about breaking the bond because it would have been done for him.

Like fire to an ant, my body flinched as I started to realise that he may have done it on purpose. I flinched so hard, I confused him.

I backed away from him, my face morphing into disgust as my brain only interpreted his actions and the emotions he possessed in his eyes as guilt, guilt for what should have happened, but didn’t.

“Did you do this on purpose?” I asked, my hand flying to my mouth.

” You wanted to get rid of me, didn’t you?” I asked again, trying to make sense of what it was that I was feeling.

My heart was pounding, my legs were getting weaker with every minute I breathed the same air with him.

Naturally, you grow weak as you come back to human form but I denied that fact of its existence. The air was suddenly toxic as well as the situation. I needed to get out of here right now.

Like the speed of light, I was grabbing my bags and throwing clothes into it, firmly holding my towel to my breast and a band aid to my heart.

I was going to make his decision for him. It was high time I left this shamble of whatever it was we were having. It wasn’t working, and I had finally seen the light.

It was time to leave.

As I packed more and more clothes into the box, it seemed to have snapped Lucius back into reality as he rushed back to me, holding my free arm as it swung to get the last sets of clothes.

“Stop.” He ordered, my wrist firmly caged in his.

I was forced to look at him, his eyes held something I couldn’t decipher and if I was being honest, didn’t care to.

I tried to wiggle my arm out of his grasp but his grip got firmer the more I wiggled.

“Stop!” He yelled at me.

“Or what!” I shouted back at him. I was enraged, and he was an a*****e.

“Let go of me! You jerkface” I shouted at him, getting in his space even more.

This was nothing like me. I have never been the feisty kind but something about surviving death has me riled up and my b***d still surging from the adrenaline that coursed in different directions of my body.

The nerve he had, the f*****g nerve!

I wiggled some more and he took hold of both my shoulders and shook me.

“Or I would get you over my knee and spank the hell out of you!” He said.

Did he think this was funny?

I laughed a dry laugh, looking at him from hooded eyes as what he said filtered properly through my ears.

“You have some f*****g nerve! Some nerve to feel you can say that to me now and at a time like this!” I shouted at him.

He didn’t flinch and still held me the way he did. He held no remorse in his eyes as I re-examined him.

“You leave me to die at the mercy of two grizzly bears and you think it’s a good time to make a joke? There’s no way on earth I want to ever see you again. I know the reason why you casually led me towards that spot! You want me gone; you’ve been raving about it since the moment we met! I bet you weren’t even having any dreams. I bet you tricked me like the way you’ve been tricking me. I’m sure you know exactly what the hell you’re doing!” I screamed at him.

He looked at me in a way that was deeper than the way he normally looked at me.

“You think you’re the one being tricke? You think?” He asked me.

I was confused at this point because if there was anybody being tricked, I was the one. Not him, so what the hell did he mean by this statement?

“You’ve been in my head since the moment we met. You have somehow controlled my thoughts and messed up my head and my life with your existence alone, and you have the audacity to claim trickery. You have the audacity to even believe it! You’re one of the most disgusting persons I have ever encountered in my life, and yet you’re the only disgusting person I want to spend my time with. I hate what I am when I’m with you, Cassia. I hate it sooooo much! I hate it. You think this is normal? Us fighting like toddlers and us trying to get away from each other, being repulsed? You think it’s normal? You trick me every time I open my eyes, you trick me by existing and yet, you say I trick you; I get in your head. Do you know what you do to me?” He paused for breath.

The whole world seemed to have entered a new era of silence.

What the hell just happened?

We were both breathing in sharp breaths, gazing into each other’s eyes as anger brimmed from both of our eyes. Lucius had just confessed something to me. Something that I have never heard before.

“You’re lying!” I shoved him, anger kissing my eyes as tears started to well in them. I still held my towel firmly to my chest.

” Stop!” He shouted again, taking my hands and hanging them against the bed.

Somehow, he had flipped me on the bed, making sure that his body pressed firmly into mine as shock registered in waves.

“If I was lying, I would never tell you about my mom, and if I was lying, then I would certainly never do this…”

With shock came a cold rush of pleasure as his lips meshed with mine.