Chapter 8

Dylan POV.

I took a small step backwards causing a small growl to come from the kings chest. I took another step back and he stopped in his tracks staring at my form. His eyes raked up and down my body landing on my bare arms, he frowned at my uniform then turned to our principal to say something. I didn't hear what he said but I used his distraction as an opportunity to run.

I quickly turned on my heels and began sprinting down the hall, Another loud growl shot through the school, so much so that you could almost feel the lockers shaking. The only thing coursing through me was fear. I ran straight to the window, and quickly began fumbling with the lock, I opened the window and went to jump out, unsure about where I would go, or even if I would survive the fall, however my foot was caught by two of the kings men, my front slammed onto the floor and my hands slapped the wooden tiles as I went down, letting an audible 'Ooof' leave me, and they dragged me by my ankles back to the hall full of students and threw me at the kings feet.

"Perhaps we could discuss this in my office, your gra..." I shook my head at the principal before standing up, darting my sight round trying to find an escape route.

"I'm not discussing anything, let me go!" A loud growl sounded out again as I wiggled and yelled in the second man's grip as he grabbed my upper arms firmly.

I'm not going to lie, this situation is far from ideal. I stepped on the second man's foot instinctively hard and felt his grip leave me a small grunt left his mouth just as the third wolf tackled me to the ground and pinned me there.

"Get the fuck off me!" I felt myself being lifted and hurled over a very hard shoulder while I kicked and shouted.

"Can someone please explain what is happening. Miss Riley is a student in my school and..." the principal was cut off with a growl from the wolf man holding me hostage.

"Matters of the royal court do not concern any of you." The king snapped while walking towards the man who's shoulder I was over, as I continued to shout obscenities.

"They do when it involves one of my students." I'm impressed, I mean everyone knows the principal hated me, and yet here he was , standing up to the wolf king for me. Thanks sir.

"She is no longer your student." Those simple words the king had spoke had me freeze my entire body, my breath hitched. No longer his student?!

"What?!" I used as much strength as I could and pushed off the wolfs shoulder, my body suddenly crashed to the floor with a thud causing a jolt of pain to shoot through me. "Shit."

"Im sorry Your grace, she just..." The wolf that was holding me was cut off as a loud crack sounded through the hall, he fell next to me, the king had just hit his own man. My head shot round to everyone who was looking at me like I was about to be taken to the gallows, while all I could do was stay seated on the floor.

"What do you mean, 'no longer a student'? You can't take me out of school! You don't have the authority." I don't know if I was terrified, or mad. Maybe a bit of both, but I do know I'd rather die than have a mate. Especially one that's the king of all species.

"Considering we are members of the royal court, I would say we do have the authority." The second wolf spoke. "Now I suggest that we go to the office and discuss this rationally and privately, or do you plan on diving out of the window again?" The man continued while walking over to me as I sat there frozen, this can not be happening.

"What would you do if I said the window..." it's funny seeing a royal wolf, the beta no less, trying to stifle a smile as I stared at him, I was being genuinely serious although I don't think he knew that because humor lay in his eyes.

"I would say nice try miss Riley, now are you going to make me drag you?" I was about to answer when another growl sounded through school, the alpha king came storming closer to me, causing me to tense up while still being seated on the floor.

A frown made its way onto his face as he walked over to me. I shuffled on my ass, but didn't get far as the third wolf stood directly behind me, The second my back hit the legs of him my heart stopped, every single person in the hall was watching as the king walked right up to me and crouched down in front, his eyes studied my face as he spoke. "Why did you run, mate?!" Again gasps and murmurs traveled through the room as people began talking about how I'm done for.

"I'm not your mate!" I just glared at him, gasps sounded from the students watching on once more, while the king simply sighed, before anything else could be done his hand came up so nonchalantly it was almost eerie and slapped me hard across the cheek. My head whipped to the side from the force and my own hand came up to cup it as my eyes widened and looked at him in shock.

"You'll learn soon enough, now come!" He held his hand out for me to take as if he hadn't done anything wrong but I simply stared at him, there is no way in hell I was going to willingly go with him.

Frustrated by my actions he growled grabbing hold of my naked forearms, and pulled me onto my feet, when I winced at the pain his fingers brought me, his eyes hardened. He forced my arm around and looked at it. There they were, the healing words that will forever be scarred on my skin. The words themselves were scabby and rough now, and a large deep purple hue lay around them, decorating the words like bubble writing, it was healing but after the last week I’d say it looks nastier than when it was first done.

My eyes slowly met the kings as he roughly ran his fingers over the wound, little shocks of electricity started shooting up and down my arm, starting at the point of his hand but the pain from him doing this outweighed them. "Whoever did this will pay with their life, my queen." His eyes bored into mine, full of aggression as he studied my face.

The king didn't look away once, me on the other hand looked everywhere but, my eyes met our principles, fear was etched on his face as I looked at him, he was silently pleading with me not to say anything, I sighed, realizing even if I could get even, the king would be doing something that I really want to do, and we simply can't have that.

"Yeah... and what if I did it myself?" I snapped, shrugging and pulling my arm out of the kings grasp in the process. I looked back at the principal with calculated cocky eyes. His eyes widened as he realized I actually wasn't going to tell anyone.

"Why would you do that to yourself?" My head whipped to the second wolf who was very gradually getting closer, in fact they all were. The worst part about this situation, is it's happening in the middle of the hallway in front of everyone.

"Maybe, I did it so mutts like you leave me alone." I barked at him causing a few more gasps and murmurs to travel around the room. The second wolf looked shocked before a smile crept on his face. While the king looked furious.

"Well, you always did say you want a strong queen, your grace." He chuckled which lead to the king to scowl at his betas words but he did soften slightly. The beta definitely could calm the king down. It was odd to witness but not really shocking, they had been friends since they were kids, so they obviously had a bond.

"Excuse me, Your Grace, perhaps we should go back to the pack house, I'm sure my father would like..." Adrian was cut off by the king who shook his head and snapped to the boy.

"I will not be returning to the pack house, I will be taking my queen home, before continuing the tour in a few months, once our bond has been established." I snorted a very unflattering snort at his words, while the alphas son bowed slightly then retreated back into his line. Every single persons head turned to watch the scene happening directly in front of them as I wasted no time in telling him exactly where he can shove his plan.

"If you think I'm going to go anywhere with you then you're more stupid than your dad, and he fucked the world up." Even I couldn't believe that left my mouth in all honesty. Sometimes I just couldn’t control my word vomit especially if I believed it to be true.

It’s no secret that I have extremely strong views when it came to the way the world works. Everyone knew how dangerous of a situation it would be for me to be in front of the king. As soon as the words left my mouth I stopped. My lips made their way in between my teeth as I shut myself up quickly, and my eyes widened as they met the kings furious gaze. Even I admit I was definitely testing his patience, so much for keeping my head down and not interacting with the king at all.

1 thing is definitely certain though, for the first time in the last 5 years of the new world, I was completely and unequivocally in over my head.