Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 105

Mauve's POV

For the hundredth time since I walked into school this morning, I brought out my phone, opened my camera and checked my make up and hair to be sure that everything was perfect. And it was, which made me wonder why exactly people were staring at me. I mean, duh, people always stared at me at school. It was one of the perks of being the most beautiful and popular girl at Shadow Cove Academy. Everyone wanted to be me. But there was something different about the way people were looking at me throughout today. Something off and almost accusatory. There was something to be said that instead of smiling or even having the freshmen and other girls secretly giggle to themselves about wanting to be like me, everyone else ignored my existence and the ones that did merely looked at me like I had stolen something.

Then again, I might have just been overthinking it, given that I felt the weird vibes start to happen just this morning when I got to the school and believed that it had something to do with the birthday party I had thrown for Lily which quickly escalated into the exact plans that I had for her.

But nah, that could not be the reason why I was sensing these weird vibes around me, could it? No one cared about that low life of a girl.

No one but the three princes of the school, but fortunately, they were going to forget about her in a couple of days. Okay, maybe weeks but time would pass and she would be nothing but a distant memory. It's not like she was mated to any of them. They'd move on to someone better and prettier (me). I'll make sure of it.

Perhaps I should have felt bad for what I did to Lily. Humiliating her and letting her get chased into the forbidden forest was probably too much. But she deserved this. If only she had stayed away from Ren like a good little girl and did not make my life miserable by allowing my mate who had never once spoken bad to me no matter what I did, to end our bond, perhaps I would have spared her.

That's on her, not me. For being a lying, greedy, boyfriend snatching w***e.

Her first mistake was messing with me and thinking that I would do nothing about it while she and my mate ran off into the sunset. Well, that was all in the past now and the competition had been taken care of. It was only a matter of time before Ren comes back running into my arms and I would be ever ready to comfort him and take him back, I thought with a smile as I walked into the cafeteria.

After thinking long and hard about it, I realized that I had done the right thing. Things only started changing between us when Lily showed up. All I had to do was take Lily out of the equation and everything will go back to normal. I'm his mate. Me! Not a lowlife with a traitor for a father. I did him a favor. I did us all a favour and he will realize it sooner or later.

However, the smile vanished from my face when I got to my seat and saw that Sydney was sitting there.

The fuck?

No one sat on my seat but me. And even though Sydney was my friend, no for the fact that she was my friend, more than anyone else, she knew that no one sat there but me. What was going on today? What was with all of the weird as hell vibes? She looked up at me from her phone and didn't move, instead turning to converse with the girl beside her and I scoffed, folding my arms. Was she really expecting me to tell her to stand up?

Well then.

"Syd, you are in my seat and I want to believe that you are doing this as some kind of prank to see what I'm going to do but you can tell whoever is filming us to put away the camera now and you can stand up so that I can sit."

"Or what?" She asked with her brows raised, turning from her conversation to look at me and my eyes widened in shock because the last thing I was expecting from her was defiance. Everyone around us had quieted down, their attention on us.

"Or what, Mauve? You know what? You're all bark and no bite. Actually, you are bite, given the lengths you are willing to go to get what you want." She rose to her feet and smirked at me and I stood speechless, shocked by her audacity. My reaction seemed to make her feel even more excited because she chuckled.

"You'll replace out soon enough that no one is scared of you anymore. You're like an evil witch that should have been exorcised a long time ago. Infact, let me give you a cleansing."

It was like I was stuck in slo mo as she took her drink and dumped it on my head and I gasped in shock, as cold cocktail drippled down my hair, neck and shoulders, stinging my skin. I watched as she giggled and everyone laughed with her.

I was about to go after her but as if there was an invisible signal, people started throwing things at me from their lunch trays. It was first as little as a fry from their trays until it got serious with actual food and *crack*... is that raw eggs?! "What the f**k?" I screamed but it only seemed to make them laugh even harder.

"You got rejected by your mate, Mauve, and all of that power that you used to parade around did not belong to you. It never did so why act so surprised that you are now at the bottom where you belong? Why not enjoy the warm welcome that we are giving you?" Sydney taunted and the girls around her laughed and gave her a thumbs up that made me growl and I was about to march towards her and drag her by the hair but people began to mock me from all ends of the hall, still throwing stuff at me and I realized with horror that my worst nightmare was turning into a reality.

The accidental trips, getting robbed of all my lunch money, the name calling. Every single thing I had ran away from after I started dating Ren...

No.

I turned to run away and gasped when someone came up behind me and emptied an entire trash can on my head.

I shrieked in horror and disgust as the contents emptied on my body and I knew that if I kept staying here, this would only get worse, and as I turned to flee, my heels got stuck in dirt and I slipped and fell on my face.

My eyes brimming with unshed tears as I wiped my face with the back of my hand to get rid of the debris, I didn't realize that the hall had become silent and no one was laughing anymore and when I looked up to see Aiden walking toward me, my fear turned into horror.

Still looking like a majestic god that was only ever described in romance novels, he flexed his fingers and I froze, noticing that a black cloud hovered over the sun, plunging the entire school into darkness.

My blood ran cold, Ren's words echoing in my memory.

"And if you even think about going near Lily or touching one strand on her head, I will hand you over to Aiden to do whatever he wants with you."

Oh no...

I had called his bluff and I was about to pay for it.

I heard a collective gasp but all of my eyes were focused on the ferocious dog creatures that were formed from actual shadows that flanked him on both ends. The hounds were big and ferocious, their shapes shifting from corporeal to nothing but smoke every few seconds.

Everyone moved to keep their distance and give him a wide berth, and when he walked past me, I released the breath that I didn't realize that I had been holding.

But my celebration was short lived because as he turned to face me, the wisps of the shadows wrapped my legs and I screamed as they dragged me on the floor like an rag.

I was doomed with a capital letter 'D' and not only did I know, but the entire school knew and one of my biggest nightmares had slowly become a reality.