The Bully's Hated Mate
The Bully’s Hated Mate – Chapter 58

LUCIUS’ POV:

My voice had vanished after I screamed.

I fell to my knees, trying to crawl towards the now gurgling corpse of my father as he choked on his own b***d.

His eyes had rolled backwards before I could even move my knees to where he laid.

Lifeless.

Worthless, like a ragdoll out on a playdate.

My eyes stung from tears that refused to spill. I looked up at Ariadne, trying to make sense if she knew about this.

Already, I knew my answer before my eyes met that blank stare, the one she gave whenever she knew exactly what she did.

The one she was giving now.

The one that made it clear to me that it was a planned effort and that her father had probably done this a thousand times.

I watched as Damon touched his lifeless body, his own shaking as he let out a devastating roar.

It resounded loudly in the whole hall, making everyone to bow down to him, everyone excluding me.

I knelt, my hands shaking from what I had just witnessed, my head bowed in shock at what had just happened.

“Get him out of here.” I heard someone say but I was already up the second the rough men took a look at me.

I knew Cassia was already in the Dungeon at the palace, that had to just be it because where else would they imprison her and now me?

I took to my feet, willing them to try to move as I made sure to direct the adrenaline to my legs.

My heart beat thrice as fast for a lot of reasons, the best been escape.

I made it outside, the men hot on my trails. I didn’t have a plan as I looked up at the sky to see the blue moon.

A once sacred day now bloody and filled with horror.

I took off into the woods, one of the men missed my capture due to the slippery nature of his hands that were causes by the amount of b***d he decided to leave there, fresh and all splattered on him.

As I slipped past his grasp, I wonder who was it? Who did he have on him like that?

I ran as fast as my legs could go, whatever distance was fine by me, so far it took me far away from these men. I ran as far as my legs could take me.

As I ran, I felt the sting hitting my eyes with so much pain. Pain I’ve never felt before.

I questioned the moon goddess

‘why would you do this to me!?’ I wanted to scream at the moon, figuring she may as well hear me that way but I’d also be giving away my location and making these rat traps get me on time.

Time, was what I didn’t have as I continued to evade the men with the trees.i was familiar with this area and I knew for a fact that Boone knew the grounds like I did.

I hid in the shrubs completely blending in with everything that was there.

I held a hand to my mouth to silence my ragged breathing, already feeling how the run was affecting my strength and my heart beat.

I knew that if I didn’t get help soon, I would faint and then I would be caught.

As I laid there, the muffled boots from different angles rang out in different directions all having one motive

‘To replace me’

I lay there flat, replaying against my wish the moment when I knew my father had been seperated from mex just as my mother was seperated from me.

In cold b***d by another.

The roar. Damon had roared loudly, immediately he touched my father’s corpse.

Suddenly stories my father had once told me filtered into my head as a memory.

He’d once told me that to become an alpha without birthright meant to kill the current alpha and absorb his blessings.

Is that what Damon had done?

Absorbed my father’s blessings and stolen my birthright?

What pained me most wasn’t even the roaring or the theft, it was that I was remembering my father as a memory.

Death truly was cruel in alot of ways.

My breath hitched as my eyes stung even more from the weight it was carrying.

Suddenly the boots stopped matching and everywhere became eerie silent.

I knew that it was a trap because I was also a trained soldier, if I came out I’d be sniffed out and is be picked off like a common rat.

Instead I decided the wisest thing to do was to get help and stay here in order to get the help cassia and I needed at this point in time.

“Lucius” someone said, a boot suddenly appearing in front of me as I dug into my hole deeper to avoid been seen.

“Lucius!” The person screamed and I recognised the voice as Damon’s.

“I know you’re here, I can smell your fear and your cowardice. I can smell your pathetic genes too” he said and made a sound to indicate bad smell.

I wanted to rip out his throat now that I knew how close he was to me.

What was stopping me was the strength and cassia.

“Come out and we won’t have to go the hard way lucius.i always get what I want” he said again in a sweet song voice, compelling but not compelling enough.

“Lucius!!” He shouted again, his frustration and his madness making his tone more noticeable.

I don’t budge one bit.

“Don’t make me do this…come out right now!” I stayed there, counting the minutes to when he would leave.

“Get me the girl back! Go!” He shouted to someone and immediately the person ran towards the opposite direction from where I had been running from.

I used my hearing and calculated his direction from his footsteps and he was going to…

The palace!

“Now, if you don’t come out. I’ll have them bring your slut of a mate here and I’ll make sure I enjoy every bit of it as I cut her throat and other parts of her open” he said and my heart skipped beats all at once.

Sweat glistened my skin from my forehead to the back of my thighs.

“I’m a very curious man!” He shouted and began to laugh hysterically.

I was beyond frightened but I didn’t want to jeopardize my escape. What if he was actually bluffing and everyone was waiting with bows and arrows?

What if hey had already killed cassia?

But that would mean I’ll have only hours to live and right now, I’d know if the bond was severed.

It wasn’t…

I started to hear grunting and then groaning. Then I finally heard it.

Her voice.

“Let me go!” She screamed as a large thud sounded across the forest.

“You have only seconds to come out of whatever home you had crawled into you slimy parasite. Come outside and I won’t have to see what lies inside this pretty slut!” He shouted for me to hear and my eyes squinted the dirt that now plastered my face.

The shrubs where I laid, belly down and weight on my elbows were starting to get too small.

“Five!” He shouted and cassia whimpered.

” Four!” My heart beat so fast as I started to decide what was more important. Getting help and leaving cassia to die while I’d count how many hours I’d have left to Jon her or risk my life by believing a murderer and trying to save cassia?

“Three!” He screamed and cassia started to beg, her tears were audible to me as her cries rang out in the forest.

“Two!” He shouted and with the last strength I had left in me, I crawled out out of the shrubs I had been hiding.

Body on all fours on the ground, I was picked as though I weighed nothing and again bresumed the position I had been before.

“There you are” Damon said, a smile on his face as I realized that he had a knife places on cassia’s face, currently he had made a small mark as b***d drew a straight line on her cheek.

He threw her towards me.

“Take these two away from my sight and into the palace dungeon. Now!” He shouted at the men as they dragged us both to our doom.

They took us to a cage where we had kept Marcus before.

Marcus had a horrific look on his face but it wasn’t compared to the amount of tears my eyes suddenly let loose of as I cried and wept bitterly.

I had failed and my father was dead.