Bullied Mate Of The Lycan Kings
Chapter 86

Ren's

POV

Savio and Lucas, Zac's bodyguards slightly nodded at us and took the men into the living room area and when I followed them in, Zac closely behind me. I watched as they dumped the men, who were also bound and gagged on the floor across from the boys. "You may take your leave now," Zac shooed them off, dismissively. "Heaven knows how queasy you two get over things like this. And don't mention this part of my extracurricular activities when you're making your reports to my mother okay?" Zac said, his tone light like the activity he mentioned did not involve kidnapping people and tying them up and even though I was sure that there was a good reason, I was wearing the same dreadful gaze that the bodyguards had on their faces before they frowned, clearly not in approval of what was going on but deciding to listen to Zac and leave.

"What is the meaning of this?" I wasted no time asking and Zac merely raised his brows at me.

"Are you not even a little bit curious about who leaked the videos of Lily? Both of which included Aiden and I by the way?"

The mention of the videos made my entire body harden in anger as I remembered how broken Lily had been when she had to re-live both videos. And even though I wanted to pretend that I didn't care who was responsible as long as it was down, I knew that it was a lie. Zac was right. I was curious, I wanted payback, but it still doesn't explain why someone from Gold Crest highschool was among these people that were tied up.

When I didn't respond, Zac just shrugged and headed to take off the bags from the head of the three guys wearing our school uniform and I recognized them as juniors at the academy. Their eyes were wide with terror, their nostrils flaring as the tried to talk around their gags.

"I'm actually very proud of myself with these ones," Zac said, beaming proudly and rubbing his hands. "They're scholarship students from an orphanage sponsored by your family. Even if they go missing, it won't cause too much of a hassle." I gave him an 'are you kidding me?' look that he just waved off.

"Anyway, I caught their scents on Lily's locker. Although they are responsible for putting the pictures up, they could not have done it without information which means that they had a Mastermind behind the leak. They're probably larkies that did the dirty work for money."

Bending forward, Zac removed their gags and immediately he did, they started to talk above each other, each of them trying to explain themselves. I didn't know what surprised me more; the fact that these boys could have done such a thing or the fact that Zac was calmly handling them, even laughing and patting one on the head as he leaned in to reassure him that he would have his turn to explain himself.

"I am nothing if not fair." Zac assured them and I had to remind myself that for all of his playfulness, my friend could be very deadly.

The fact that the boy even relaxed after Zac's words and returned his charming deceptive smile with one of his own reminded me of just how dangerous Zac was... and told me of how stupid his captives were.

Walking towards the two other men, Zac took off the bags from their heads and looked at me.

"They're the men that vandalized Lily's home. I'm more curious about who sent them. Do your thing."

I knew what he was asking and immediately tried to reach into their minds to extract the information that I needed but I noticed something strange instead.

Nothing. I saw nothing. Heard nothing. Their minds were like a blank slate and there was nothing but a thick black fog covering their minds that seemed to stop me from even seeing their memories as well as their thoughts.

Puzzled, I turned to try my powers on the students from the academy and also experienced the same thing. Immediately a theory started forming in my head that perhaps whoever was really responsible for leaking the videos was the same person responsible for sending the thugs to trash Lily's home.

"Nothing?" Zac asked, his eyes wide with surprise when I said no and started to ask them questions but none of them could remember what the faces of the people that asked them to terrorize Lily looked like.

The students said that they always communicated through notes left in their lockers while the thugs received anonymous text messages. It was terrible to know that I could not even read their minds to confirm if they were telling the truth or not, my powers for once, having no effect on ordinary people.

It was scary to think about it. Whoever had done this must have been thorough enough to know we were going to come after them and had prepared accordingly for it. A feat that shouldn't be so easy, especially to an outsider. Zac and Aiden were good at keeping me out of their heads, it wasn't an impossible task but it was doable getting around my powers. But that was Aiden and Zac. I trusted them with my lives. These ones however...

I suddenly felt Aiden's presence enter the room and even though he still looked pale, his color was coming back and he leaned against the wall, his cold gaze, sweeping around the room and if he had any qualms about the captives bloodying up his persian rug, he showed no signs of it.

"Nothing yet," I confirmed to Zac and when I saw him deep in thought, I knew that he was having the same suspicions as I did.

"Magic?" He asked and I shrugged even though it was what I was thinking about because only dark magic could do something like this.

Werewolves were not proficient in dark magic except the elites of Night Shade and right now, the only elites within our circle high enough to hire dark witches at the academy were Paige, Hanz and Sebastian. And I wouldn't put it past any of those three. They were close to Aiden, they knew how much he hated her and they would do anything if they thought it would please him... The theory was starting to take form in my head.

Sebastian... Sebastian... My heart started racing as realization hit me. He had known about Aiden's blackmail. He had rejected my sister for Mauve and Mauve was responsible for the attack the first time. Was she responsible for this one? Or could Sebastian have acted alone?

"Oh well," Zac cracked his knuckle, dragging me out of my thoughts, "looks like we'll just have to make an example out of what we have on our hands."

"What's going on?" Aiden finally asked, moving from the wall and going to sit on the sofa directly facing the captives. As he walked, wisps of darkness melted out of him, taking the shape of a ferocious guard dog that prowled behind him, showing that he was at least, a little ticked at what was going on.

"They're responsible for leaking the videos." Zac informed him.

"No, they're not." Aiden said, leaning back against the sofa, crossing his legs, his arms resting on the back of the sofa. His dog, or one of the many that could take shape from his powers, sat beside him, his head in his master's lap as Aiden stroke his shadowed fur. "What the f**k do you mean by that?"

"I mean they're just tools. I know who's responsible for the leak... It's Seb."

There was silence throughout the room for the whole of one second as Aiden confirmed the theory I had arrived at.

Zac pinched the bridge of his nostrils. Exhaled exasperatedly. "Sebastian Morellis?"

"Yup. That's the one."

"And you didn't think to mention this to me before?" Zac asked, his voice tight with annoyance.

"I didn't know you were going to go city hunter on his a*s. Besides, why do you think I was pissed at him back at school? I was going to kill him until you showed up."

"We can't kill him," I reasoned, trying to keep their bloodlust in check. "But we can't let him go unpunished either."

Aiden nodded in agreement and for once, even Zac did.

Aiden and Zac were a lethal duo when they worked in sync and sometimes they get carried away in their quest to vent out judgement on who they think deserved it. While we're usually on the same page, it's my job to see to it that they don't get too carried away with their victims.

It's how we earned our street cred in the academy. How people knew to not mess with the princes of Shadow Cove. Yes, our parents and family names paved the way for our peers to respect us, but what really makes them fear us are these 'extra curricular activities' like Zac calls it.

Realizing that there was one more person still mute with a bag still covering his identity while the rest tried to save themselves by explaining to Zac, I pointed to him.

"He's from Gold Crest highschool." I pointed at him. "He can't have anything to do with the leak, can he?"

"Gold Crest?" Aiden sat up so suddenly that his shadow creature whined. "That's Cade's jurisdiction. Our individual packs are fair game but Cade's territory is off limits. We should let him take care of this one."

"Oh, trust me," Zac said in a cold tone. "You'll want to handle his case when you replace out what he did to Lily."