Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 159

lily's

pov

With Cade gone, Zac and I turned to face Callista with a trembling Bia still in her clutches.

Angelo's hands trembled around the gun pointed at her, his voice, a devastated whisper, "What did you do to her, what did you to her?" His eyes were wide with horror as he slowly came to the realization that Bia was no longer human. "Let her go." I seethed and Callista chuckled, tossing Bia towards Angelo who dropped his gun and caught her in his arms.

"My hunters will stay. I'll see to Bia." He said and I nodded, refusing to take my eyes off Callista especially because I knew that Bia was in safe hands.

"Oh Zac." Callista tilted her head, a mocking look on her face, "I'm a bit heartbroken that you moved on so easily from me, I mean I could have sworn that I left a lasting impression on you but it seems I was wrong. Maybe this time,after I'm done with this cheap knockoff by your side, we can continue from where we left off. I know you miss being under me." She gleamed, "the struggle was always the best part of keeping you captive. I can almost remember the look in your eyes, the taste of your tears as you begged me, please, please, please, don't do this to me." She giggled, mocking his tone and winked at him and the way Zac went pale, his eyes going dark immediately made me gasp in horror as I finally understood that he must have been under he control when she made him do things like that. Sexual things like that.

The b***h had raped him, heaven knows how many times.

Zac was frozen, he couldn't move, like he was trapped in those awful memories, one were he's still a victim and Callista is his tormenter and I could finally understand the tortured look in his eyes when he told me that he could not stop himself and that he was sorry. He hadn't been able to stop himself from doing her bidding in the past too even though she had practically raped him.

How could I have missed it? A disgusted feeling welled in my stomach. All those times I had accused him of still having feelings for Callista were coming back to bite me in the a*s. All thiose times that I had told him that he only liked me because of who I am but because I bore a resemblance to her. I choked down on the nausea rising up my throat at the fact that I even bore a resemblance to his abuser.

I don't even blame him for trying to kill me the first time we met. I finally understood his visceral response to seeing me that day in the cafeteria and why he had always said I was nothing like Callista.

Even Dahlia who hardly ever acted like she was practically living inside me stirred in my chest and just as she did, I realized that she had been obviously unable to do anything because of the rhodium in the air but it seemed like it was wearing off because her presence was stronger and she was as enraged as I was, the two of us in agreement for the very first time.

"Oh sweetie, don't look at me like that," She huffed me and gestured towards Zac "he enjoyed all of those things as much as I did. If you've f****d him, you probably already know that he knows his way around a woman's body. I taught him that. I taught him everything he needed to know. He had been so eager to please me, remember, Zachary? Remember how you used to follow me around like a desperate little dog, thirsty for affection? You were so clueless on our first night together and so horrible but so cute and that was why I kept you. You were so naive and loyal. Fiercely so, I was sure that no one could ever take you away from me." She cackled something in me snapped.

I felt it at the same time that my powers were unleashed on her. My will was dahlias and she was in full symphony with me; Callista could not leave this room alive.

I stretched out my hands and darkness blasted into Callista. She let out a shrilling scream as I flung into the wall, colliding into it with a thud so hard it caused a huge crack in the wall.

Darkness slithered out of me and, fashioning the darkness into ropes, I wrapped them around her ankles like a lasso and lifted her up, knocking her over and over into the ground and against the wall before flinging her across the room into a metal window. I heard cracks of bone and smelled her dead blood and for the first time, I smiled in the face of cruelty.

Dragging her back again, I held her bound and whipped her, enjoying the screams she made and just then I heard growls and turned to see other vampires rushing into the house. I turned sideways, ready to try to fend them off but Zac was quicker, snapping out of his reverie and springing into action. Bursting into his lycan form, he didn't hesitate, tearing them to pieces and I saw Callista's smile that had formed when she thought her backup had arrived vanished, causing me to give her a smirk as we both watched Zac use his powers to burn their torn apart body parts on the floor to pieces right after. I noticed that Callista's eyes widened in fear of Zac while he used his powers and realized that she hadn't known about it. She didn't know about Zac's powers. Cynthia mustn't have briefed her about it.

"What? Are you surprised? Nothing to say now?" I sneered and pushed her back into the wall, taking a page out of Aiden's book and fashioned my darkness into large pointy spikes, impaling her against the wall.

She screamed and when Dahlia sought permission to act, I let her, giving in to the urge to rip her cold hard heart out of her dead body. It wasn't going to kill her but it was going to hurt like a b!tch and since I couldn't take her soul, I would leave vengeance for Zac. "For all you've done to him, I want nothing more than to kill you with my own hands. But your life is not mine to take."

I felt Zac behind me and just as I turned sideways to look at him, he wrapped a hand around my neck and taking my chin in the other, he pulled me to him and kissed me deeply.

"I love you," he whispered and I smiled against his lips, kissing him back.

Callista would watch him be happy before dying and that was my punishment to her. As Zac headed towards her, she cried and tried to wiggle out of the way but she wasn't going anywhere because I had impaled her to the wall. Pinned her there like a annoying little insect.

"Please, Zac- Zac, please don't do it, I swear that if you let me go, I will disappear from your lives and I will never come back. I swear to you. You know I keep my promises."

A ball of fire sprang to life on Zac's hand and she screamed, trying and failing to rip herself off the wall.

Zac sighed and cradled her face with his free hand, stroking her cheekbones gently, his eyes, deceptively soft. "I will only ever have peace after I have held your ashes in my hands." And before Callista could get any word out, fire erupted on his fingertips and her beautiful face started to disfigure and melt, his other hand against her stomach.

She died screaming, her body turning into ash.

The silence in the room was palpable and besides Zac's heavy panting, there was nothing else to be heard in the entire room. Zac stared at Callista's ashes, took it in his hands and let it slip through his fingers. There was a look of shocked disbelief on his angelesque face like he couldn't believe that he had actually killed her, that the creature behind his nightmare was actually dead.

"She's gone," he whispered, a lone tear trickling down his cheeks and I nodded, tears streaming down my face as I hugged him tight, pulling back to kiss him hard.

"It's real. This is real, you just killed her, for good this time and she won't be coming back to torment you anymore. You can rest easy now." I whispered against his lips and his face finally broke into a bright smile, his eyes still brimming with tears and when he pulled me back for a tight hug, I winced, causing him to let go of me and he flinched when he looked at my side to see that his claw marks were still on my body.

His hands trembled, his eyes filled with guilt and I shook my head, taking his hand and placing it on my side. I took his face in my hands, forcing his eyes to leave my side and focus on the love in my eyes.

"I know that it wasn't you and that's all that matters. You could never hurt me. I know that and I love you and I'm so proud of you for fighting." I said so he could see that I wasn't angry or afraid of him and he nodded, placing a hand on the back of my head and pulling me closer to press a lingering kiss on my forehead.

Taking my hand, he led me out of the house. I leaned heavily against him, as we walked further into the woods just in time to see a large golden brown wolf, who I was sure had to be Cade pin down another honey brown wolf a tad smaller than him on the ground. Both were seriously injured but the wolf on top tore the head off the honey brown wolf and for a moment I was afraid that I was wrong, that it was Cade who was beneath and not above. Was I wrong? Or was it over?

My ears were ringing with a sharp piercing siund, my hands trembling as my heart pumped dread into my arteries.

The dismembered wolf gave me my answer as it slowly transformed back into human and I saw that it was Cynthia's head that had been severed from her body.

Zac, like me, heaved a sigh of relief as Cade transformed into his human form, lying on his back, facing the sky and panting hard, a glassy look of disbelief in his eyes. All of the wolves from Gold crest rushed into the clearing and took in the scene before them. The humans bent a knee while the wolves bowed their head in submission as they all began to chant and howl. I knew what the chant meant.

It was one of submission.

They had accepted him as their new Alpha.

Hail Cade Corrigan. King of Gold Crest and protector of the first wolves. Hail the new alpha of Gold Crest pack.