Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings – Chapter 77

Lily’s POV

If Zac could feel my hand trembling in his grasp, he played it off well. He had an easy gaze on the road ahead of him, a lazy hand on the steering wheel, humming softly to the sound of music crooning from his speaker.

While I was a cold mess with scattered thoughts.

ven if it’s not Ren, I’m still going to choose him… if I haven’t f****d things up in that aspect.

he wanted nothing to do with me anymore?

ld let us be together if we were mates?

you can have both.

g a hand to my head.

y.

tenseness was more from me because from the look of things, Zac seemed to be in lala land.

e I was still trying to process what was actually going on with me. With ZAC! Hugging me, sniffing me and rubbing his scent all over me in a way that I have only seen couples do with one another.

ould have thought that I was

moved the car onto the road and I had been too shocked to ask him why he was holding my hand, still trying to reconcile the fact that those same hands had nearly killed someone from just touchig them.

y hand now.

e car in fear? Fear of what I had seen him do perhaps?

could it?

e thought I was scared, I just have to show him that I’m not. I tried to pull away from him but all he did was tighten his fin

ing to work.

ted in calling him out or asking why he was holding me tight like that. I hated to admit it but I liked how it felt with my hand in his right now, especially after how I had felt when Tate tried to molest me. Being alone after that would have made me crumble and it was not like holding hands had to mean anything, right?

Right.

car was no longer moving and when I looked in Zac’s direction, I saw that he was staring at something ahead.

looking at the place that I called home.

ounding the house where he liked to plant his own spices and special plants he used to perfect his art, but right now, with neither me nor my mother taking care of it, the garden was dead and the white picket fence was broken.

rra.

nt little home. Zac’s scrutiny affected me in a way Ren didn’t.

per. I suddenly remembered that Mauve had said that they were going on a date together… maybe that’s why he’s ignoring me… because he’s busy with her.

heart crac

ve gone?

her to that diner where we ate and the

head because I was giving myself false hope when I knew that only heartbreak awaited me from wondering about their date. I looked u

lived so the last thing on my mind was to invite him in.

erely shrugged.

t you’re inside the house and safe.”

d that something was not right.

meant that either my mother had come or people had broken in a

d either been trashed, wrecked or looted and right in the middle of their living room was her mother on her knees, crying and sporting not only a nasty gash on her forehead but also a b

lifted her eyes and saw me and I rushed towards where my mother knelt, pulling her into my arms for a hug and allowing myself to cr

cold.

vastation to one of accusation as she frowned at me.

hat has decided to punish me as well?” She gripped my blazer hard, her e

I…” my voice got lost mid explanation because I did hur

ause he was going to deal with me where it would truly hurt, by coming for my loved ones and everything that was precious to me.

imagined what could have happened to my bedroom

d not even realized that Zac had not left until I was climbing up the stairs and he was right behind me.

lood splattered on the walls and I followed the tail to the bathroom to see my cat, Fiona, nailed to the wall with… oh my g

’t stop the toe curling scream from escaping my lips as I stumbled back, crashing into a wall of muscle that enclosed its arms around me.

Zac…

eces, rubbing my back and murmuring soothing words.

ain, but this time, I knew who did it.

****g Vanderbilt.