Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings – Chapter 3
LILY’S POV:
I had only escaped today by the skin of my teeth. Whatever I had faced at Gold Crest was child’s play compared to what the bluebloods at Shadow Cove academy were prepared to do to me.
Like mindless sheep they had taken Aiden’s words as law and set out to get me. I had hid in the girl’s toilet for most of today, where I knew the boys couldn’t follow me.
atching and snickering as I was practically hounded around school.
when everybody has heard of the
er my spleen where a baseball bat had grazed my abdomen. I was sore all over. My feet were throbbing
tion I find myself?
y my eyes out.
heard my best friend holler as she walked into the flowershop.
p and saw her t
needed some social interaction. And because nobody in Shadow Cove was going to dream of befriending me, I decided to look for day jobs outside the protected walls of Shadow Cove.
Theo blooms flower shop to work and get my social fix.
off of you today. You look like you need a minu
d shook my head.
b.
rvy hips and opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by Theo coming in through the backdoor with a basket of
his bespectacled glasses.
minute.”
”
elled, so close to pulling out my hair.
n their respective bouquets.
ro, succeeding in placing the basket down in front of me without dropping it and making a mess of things.
my tank top up, revealing the brown and purplish bruise that was forming below my ribs.
hat the hell, Lil! Ho
ing her an ugly look. “I got it at school. It was an accident.”
entional to me,” Theo said, looking at me in shock. “Didn’t you just start school at that fancy academy? Was that where you g
the worried look in their eyes a
diately sw
Wha
“Why?”
sorry at all.
ade out to be in the media,” I sighed, pulling the petals off of a stray dandelion I found. “I made the mistake of mouthing off at this guy, Aiden, without thinking.”
he deceased owners of Vanderbilt Corp?”
ne500 real estate business that grossed over fifty billion dollars according to forbes, and Aiden was going to be the proud own of all that in the next few years.
se Aiden would get with even more power. The little he had at the academy was already going to his head.
.”
ards! All of them!” Bia hissed, pushing back a strand of coily brown h
and might of the werewolves and vicious rich kids out for my blood. Still, I appreciated her good intentions.
rugged, mentally pumping my fists in the air when I didn’t wince while standing up. “let’s get to work. These bouquets
there, Beauregard,” Theo said, stopping me in my tracks. “You’re going to go back home, tend to your injury and don’t even dream of coming back here until you’re all healed up
ut–”
me out of his shop.
***
ght that I could slip into school before the monste
s wro
ere she is! Get her! Don’t let her e
ized my heart for a second before I
nking they would have the common courtesy to not follow me in.
dio and the injury in my abdomen flared up again.
knees to my chest, praying to every deity out there that they don’t come in and find me.
t have been deaf because somebody kicked the door the my stall, knocking it right off it’s hinges.
wn hair grinned down at me, maliciously.
esterday, but oh god, what they had in mind was a lot worse.
them, the biggest of the three, held me d
ying and failing to kick them off of me, my heart beating erratically i
appened before. This has never happened to me before
I cried, treacherous tea
**y is only good for the founders? Why don’t we have a taste and see if it’s even worth the hype.”
d unbuckling his belt.
g to lose it.
? I should just let them do what they wan–
ddenly, the door p
o soothing. So soft.
ating in the middle of the ocean during a treacherous storm.
The voice demanded, righteous rage dripping from his voice.
.”
how that will look on your record.”
s melted off my body.
doing what Aiden–”
r said, cutting him off. “Leave us.” He commanded and they yeeted out of there.
ain, footsteps made their way to me and before I knew it, someone was helping me sit up, cradling my head in th
soft fingertips.
n numbed to a dull ache.
alers do the rest. You’ll be okay. I promise.”
tered open as he lifted me up in his arms. I caught
again.
g painfully in my chest .
not man or monster but most definitely an angel.
eyes. “Ren Hawthorne.”