THE LYCAN KING'S REJECT

TAKEN

My body hurts. My head hurts. My everything hurt. I felt like I was just hit by a bullet train six times. I attempted to move but my arms were restrained. I slowly opened my eyes expecting to see somebody, anybody. But there was only darkness. I tried to stand but my legs felt like jelly. I let my body sag to the cold hard floor.

The events of last night came rushing back to my mind. Am I dead for real this time. The last time I was in this much pain I thought Lorenzo had killed me and he was a demon. Lorenzo. Oh please don’t tell me they hurt him. Please let him be okay. I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I was the reason they hurt him.

Hours later, maybe minutes, I don’t know how long I’ve been here, I hear heavy footsteps and clicking of high heels. They’re coming. My eyes were wide trying to see in the dark, but my efforts were useless.

“I see the princess is awake now.” An annoyingly high pitched voice. It sounded familiar. The lights flicked on with no warning, making me shut my eyes. The bright light burned my eyes, making them water a little. “What princess, have nothing to say?” And that’s when it clicked. It was her! I slowly opened my eyes, adjusting to the harsh light. I looked up at the two people that came in. Marious stood by the door to the cell they had put me in. And the flirty maid from this morning stood next to him.

That b***h was helping him! She was the traitor.

“Now now Carly,” Marious said, stepping closer to me. “Just wait and you’ll get what you want.” He squatted down right in front of me and used two of his fingers to lift my chin. “ You ruined all our plans, you b***h, but now that you’re here we can fix what you screwed up.” He stood up but not before slapping me across the face. I tried to hold the cheek he had hit but my hands were chained to the walls on my left and right. So I couldn’t move. “My daughter will mate with the king. I will get my rank and you will die.” He chuckled. “All will be right with the world again.” Then they turned around and walked away.

I was left alone with my thoughts. Please someone help me. I need to get back to my mate.

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I feel ice cold water splash all over me giving my system a shock. I didn’t even realize I had fallen asleep. The nasty maid, Carly, stood in front of me with an empty bucket in her hands.

“Wake up b***h we’re moving you.” She says in annoyance. “We are moving onto phase two of the plan.”

It must have been morning already. I’ve been here all night. I miss my mate.

Carly takes a step closer to me and jabs a syringe into my neck. I groan out in pain as a hot liquid pours into me.

“Now here’s what’s going to happen.” She takes a fist full of my hair and pulls so I’m looking right at her. “We are going to take you to the clearing where I get to kill you. Then -” she was cut off.

“I’ll bring my new mate, the king, to your dead body and say the rogues attacked you.” That same slim figure from before stepped out of the dark corner and into the light of my cell. Victoria. She wore an evil smile as she approached me. She stopped Right in front of me and kicked me right in the stomach.

“You f*****g b***h!” I groaned in pain. “Why are you doing this? What could you possibly gain from killing the king's mate?” She laughs at me. She grabs my chin hard, forcing me to look at her.

“I get money, power, and a hot ass mate in my bed every night.” I looked at her in disgust before looking at Carly.

“Tori says I can be the king's mistress if I help her. I can help the king release his s****l frustration when his mate is gone.” Well that’s pathetic.

My body starts to feel heavy and my vision starts to blur. What the hell did they give me?

“It’s already working. Grab her.” I hear Victoria say to Carly before My body starts to heat up and I black out.

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LORENZO’S POV -

When I woke up the next morning my mate was gone. I went to Abby to see if she had gone to her when she had woken up, but even I knew it was unlikely. She would lay in bed with me till I woke up. She would never leave, especially without saying anything to me. After confirming that my mate wasn’t with my sister I started to panic. Where was she? She didn’t talk to anyone else in the castle so where could she be.

Hours later there was still no sign of her. I had sent out scouts to find her, but they all came back with nothing. That’s when I knew. They took her. THEY TOOK MY MATE! I called my investigators to see if they could find any clues. They went off to do their job and said they’d report back if they found anything.

I was about to let Ryker out so we could find her ourselves, when there was commotion coming from down stairs. I immediately ran downstairs to the main entrance of the castle to see if one of the scouts had come back with my mate. But it wasn’t my mate, guards were trying to keep out a couple who looked furious. They look like they were about to burn down the whole castle.

“WHAT THE f**k IS GOING ON!” I roared. They were wasting my time when I could be looking for my mate.

“King Enzo, we need to speak with you urgently.” The woman said.

“Sir, they took out twelve guards trying to get to you.” One of the guards says.

“We wouldn’t have had to if you would have just let us in.” The man said.

“ALL OF YOU SHUT UP. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE?!” I was getting fed up.

“We’re Lily parents.” The woman says,Causing my eyes to widen in surprise. Her parents?

“Yes, and she’s in trouble.” The man says still trying to get past the guards. They could help me find my mate.

“Let them in. They are your queen’s family.” I tell the guards, and they immediately obey. “Come. Let’s talk in my office.” They nod and I make my way to my office downstairs with Lily-Jane’s following close behind me. When we make it to my office they take a seat in the two chairs in front of my desk and I sit in my chair behind it. “How do I know you’re really her parents?” The woman nudges the man and he puts his face in his hands for a few seconds. When he lifts his head I see the same dark brown contacts that Lily-Jane wore. I looked the man in his eyes. They were the same red as my mates. I look at the woman and see she got one blue eye from her mother and one red from her father.

Her parents, Mathias and Marine, told me how and what they were. Then told me what Lily-Jane was. They said they had a bad feeling and contacted the witch who spelled my mate's necklace to see if she was all right.

The witch told them that something strong was about to be released from within Lily-Jane. That didn’t sit right with me.

Her parents explain that they had her powers concealed and hidden so she wouldn’t hurt herself or anybody around her. But the necklace they had spell spelled wasn’t working anymore and all her power was about to be released. That made me even more worried I didn’t want her to hurt herself or for it to hurt her.

But the thing that caught my attention most was when they said they had put a tracker and her necklace. I am mediately ran upstairs to our bedroom searching through all of her jewelry that she had, her necklace is gone. That has to me that she’s wearing it now right? Lately she’s been wearing it a lot. She wore it to bed last night before we went to sleep, before they took her.

“ I need you guys to track her. She could be hurt.” They both nodded their heads and the woman, Marine, takes out a vile that had a purple glowing liquid from her bag.

“Do you have a map of your land?” She asked to pulling out the corkscrew that kept the vile closed. I opened one of the drawers to my desk and pulled out a map of my territory. I cleared everything off my desk and laid the map out flat. “Great, now we need your blood.” I didn’t question her before. I used my own claws to slice open my palm. She held my bleeding hand over the map as my blood dripped in the middle of it. She poured the purple liquid that was in the vile on top of my blood and as it mixed the liquid turned blue. “This will help us get her exact location.”

I watched as the liquid moved across the map, across my territory and stopped in an open space. I leaned closer to where the liquid had stopped. “ That's the old training grounds. I moved my warriors to a new training area because that one had too many rogues around it.” That’s where my mate is. As I stand up from my desk getting ready to go after my maid Victoria burst through the door.

“Lorenzo, you have to hurry, it's your mate, she's hurt and bleeding.” She says. Bleeding?

“TAKE ME TO HER!” I yelled at Victoria. She nods and takes off out the door. I follow close behind her. We ran for miles before we reached the clearing. I could hear my mates parents and some of my warriors coming close behind me, along with my sister and beta. I did not expect to see my mate like this when we reached the center of the clearing.

My mate was covered in blood from head to toe.

But it wasn’t her blood.