Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings – Chapter 49

Lily’s POV

Maybe I should have just called Rhea and Chelsea downstairs was my first thought as I raised my shaking hand and touched the side of Ren’s busted lip with a cotton swab.

He let out a quiet hiss of pain, his gaze, intent on me. Eyes of liquid gold searing holes into my skull.

wallowed nervously, practically fighti

ere straight away to see me and even though my hands shook with an unspoken need that I did not dare voice out, I wa

it was the fact that I was in close proximity to him that made my body tremble and quake.

s, so close that I could count his lashes, how he allowed me to clean up his wounds, his hands on either side of me, I doubted that he knew just how mu

ent to discard the swabs.

I handed him a glass of orange juice and he accepted with a bright smile, taking my hand back in his as we walked back to the living room together.

at beside him on the couch. However when his eyes shifted from my face to my neck, his smile disappeared, replaced with bone crushing guilt. I looked down and saw that the collar of the two sizes too big shirt I was wearing had slipped down, revealing the bite marks that Zac had given me, still shining in all of its glory.

orry, Lily.”

d into his comforting touch

“Ren-”

dn’t have-” he paused, eyebrows furrowing at me. “Why’re you smilin

mes to apologizing for things that we didn’t do.” I reminded him of the time that I was freaking out and havi

anything. I’m happy to have you back in my life.”

his hands.

A mate.

r what Zac had done to me. Neither was he responsible for what Aiden had done to me. I had been foolish to even ques

he rest of us and I had undoubtedly felt the presence of his wolf in him the very first tim

“Ren?”

ver.

I shook my he

o me and let out a heavy sigh.

verras are, don’t you? What they truly are.” He said and I nodded.

eadly mafia that masqueraded as leading socialites in the human world.

a.”

ace had turned to one of rage when he believed I was Callista and I knew that I would not like where this story was heading.

tuated and for weeks she was all he talked about with us. We were just fourteen then and she was older by a few years but it didn’t matter to Zac. He was in love and regularly snuck out of Shadow Cove to meet up with her and be with her. One day, she lured him into her home and that was when he found out that she was Callista Moroni, the daughter of not

new about them. Every child, every werewolf has been taught about the hierarchy since we were little kids. Besides the hunters, vampires were our natural enemies

the born ones, the superior race that descended from the very first vampires that walked the earth. The strigoi, those turned. They were violent, wild and untame

culating, greedy, power hungry and even more territorial than us werewolves. They were wise and strong, capable of thinking rationally and intelligently and because they didn’t age as quickly as we do and outlived us, most Moroi were successful and highly influential.

e was strong enough to turn others into vampires and they were powerful

have vampires to the b

he continued.

ance over their territories. Zac was who they saw as the weakest link so they used their daughter to get to him. He was kidnapped and subjected to torture.” His fists clenched, his voice broke, “he was subjected to so much torture, Lily. No fourteen year old, no child or human should ever have to go through what they put Zac through. They’d record the videos and send it to the council, placing high demands to let go of Zac. His experience at their hands altered him forever and he still has nightmares about that day.”

swallowed, clenching my shaking fists. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn

w how Moroi turn humans into vampires?”

their veins as easily as blood. It was a tedious and risky process to turn a person. It involved continually injecting venom into your victim while draining out the blood of the victim, until all their blood has changed to venom.

bloodthirsty and wild, with zero morals and humanity. Heartless in every dark, wicked sense.

verras to back down and accept defeat and they had started the process of turning him, amongst other tortures, while he was still with them.”

rigoi now?” I

njoy food or water and are driven by bloodlust. Zac isn’t like that. He can survive long amount of days without needing blood, although he occasionally needs it in his diet to survive. The sun merely annoys him but doesn’t kill him and he ages like his normal self.”

e a hybrid in the worst way.

ight cruel on his bad days. He bonded with Aiden better when he came back and it was just a very bad time to be their friend at the time. With Aiden intent on hurting people and Zac intent on enabling him.”

D- did they ever hurt you?” I gasped.

ions that persisted after he got turned were stronger than before. Logic, respect, love, loyalty, even hatred. I guess that’s why he sticks with Aiden so much. They were friends long before I even entered the picture and he’s more loyal to him than I ever will be.”

ly as cold and heartless as Ren thinks or does he still have a heart after all? Is he so altered that his humanity is completely gone now, or can there still be a piece of him left in there?

what Zac is?”

hadow Cove residents. Most people know that he was kidnapped by an enemy vampire clan, they

line?”

s. He’s only allowed to drink refrigerated blood from blood bags and he’s forbidden from feeding on Shadow Cove residents.”

rule to the wind with me though and I wondered if I wa

re?”

k that made me certain I would not like the answer.