Carnivals: Claimed By The Deranged Alpha Prince [BL]-Chapter 235: Shocking Revelations

Jules’ pov

"You’re so fucking delusional because he was never yours!" I screamed at him, anger making everything red around me.

He reached up and scratched my face and I screamed as his nails tore into my skin.

"Did you tell you he fucked me and loved every second of it? I bet he didn’t, you gullible–"

I cut him off by kneeling harder on his stomach, aiming a punch in his nose that instantly bent my knuckle.

"As a matter of fact, he did. He told me about your desperate ass. I should’ve known you were a fake friend from the onset, how was I so blind? If you hated me from the onset; why the hell did you bother becoming my friend?!" I yelled and he screamed at me, scratching at my arms and I cried out painfully.

"That’s because I was asked to, you dummy! You think I’d willingly choose to be friends with you? You were a fucking loser and you were never in my league. I never liked your dumb ass, I only tolerated you. If I wasn’t asked to befriend your gullible ass, trust me when I say that I would have never ever approached you even in your dreams."

I blinked slowly, feeling dazed at the unexpectedness of what I had just heard. The little moment of losing focus was all Taylor needed to shove me off his body. He rolled over me in the next moment and gripped my throat tightly, eyes filled with so much venom as he screamed into my face.

"Fucking die because you ruined everything when you came into my life!"

I yelled and kicked my legs out, trying to shove him off me with all my might but he was way stronger than I am, so he didn’t budge. He slapped my face and it whipped up the side. I blindly scratched his arms, feeling blood in my nails but his grip on my throat still remained tight.

People were screaming in the background and I desperately wished one of them would come pull Taylor off me but they didn’t get involved. I kicked my legs out again and tried bucking him off me but he snarled and tightened his hold on my throat.

I tried bucking him off me again and he attempted to kneed me in the stomach, but then he suddenly got ripped off me and I heaved, chest expanding hard as I blinked a few times to clear off the black spots, and that was when I realized that Josh had arrived and he was the one who had pulled Taylor off me.

A few omegas helped me off the ground and I panted as I ganwed at Taylor who tried attacking me again, but Josh’s hold on his arms prevented that from happening.

In the background, I could hear Josh ordering everyone to scram away as I stared at Taylor, at how consumed with rage he was, I felt disgusted to the core over the fact that he clearly hated me this much and never even wanted to become my friend in the first place. Something registered in my head and I stepped towards him.

"Did you really get paid to befriend me? Who approached you to do that?" I demanded and he crackled, trying to wrench free from Josh’s hold once again.

"That’s none of your business, but yes, I did get paid! It was supposed to be for a few weeks anyway, but other things kept coming up and I had to still keep up the stupid charade." He hurled at me and I let out a bitter laugh, realizing that from the onset, everything had been a lie.

But who could have paid him? Andrian?

Josh appeared as shocked as I am and he shook Taylor a little, eyes widened.

"You were really paid to befriend him? I thought you liked him, but you told me you did." Josh echoed slowly and Taylor scoffed.

"I only lied because I couldn’t tell you the truth, but I never liked him. You know befriending losers was never my style, now fucking let go of me." He demanded the last part angrily and Josh still appeared very confused.

"So you never cared about him? So why did you try keeping him away from Blaze?" Josh continued.

"Because I was asked to." He repeated and I scoffed. "Or because you wanted him for yourself?" I echoed, causing him to glare at me.

"By who? By Kai?" Josh questioned and Taylor shook his head.

"No, by the same person who asked me to befriend him." He revealed and I blinked slowly, seriously wondering if Andrian had Taylor watching me this whole time.

"Who’s that?" Josh asked and Taylor pursed his lips. "I’m not telling, so let go of me."

"I actually won’t, not till we get to the bottom of this. What the hell is your problem, Taylor? When did you get to this point?" Josh demanded, forehead crinkled.

"My problem is that you’re always quick to pick sides. Once again you’re about to defend that first class liar." Taylor snapped in response and I flinched a little.

"That’s it. I think I’ve had enough of you, Taylor. You’re always being unreasonable and whenever I try to reason with you, you instantly get defensive and start bringing up sides. Whenever you ignore me and shut me out because of this, I always end up craving in and coming to you at the end of the day because I’d always be grateful for the help you provided me two years ago, but now I think I’m done. You’re not the same person I became friends with and I don’t think we should be friends anymore." Josh loosened his hold on Taylor but he didn’t charge at me, instead, he began to pace around, clearly furious.

"You’re being ridiculous and impossible, and it has to be over him of all people?" Taylor demanded.

"Why do you hate him? What did he do to you?" Josh questioned almost immediately.

"Let me tell you what you do not know, he’s a chronic liar, and you should be thankful we aren’t close to him anymore, if not, our lives would be in danger now as well." Taylor revealed and Josh’s eyes widened before his gaze darted towards me.

"How do you know this? That Elio is in danger? How did you know?" I questioned this time and he glared daggers at me.

"Like I’m ever gonna tell you, you lousy liar." He snapped in response.

"For someone who also lied to me from the very onset, you sure have the balls to point fingers. No matter how much you rave from today till tomorrow, Blaze is never gonna want you. It’s pathetic to even be doing all this over someone who doesn’t want you." I snapped back in the next moment.

"Wait, you liked Blaze? I thought you hated him?" Josh echoed and Taylor shrugged. "It’s a long story."

"Wait, so that’s why you hang out with Kai so much and why you always tried forcing Jules on him, because you wanted to get Blaze for yourself?" Josh echoed, mouth parted.

"Well, Kai and I are friends, so I was doing him a favor by always trying to get him with Kai."

"You’re delusional." I told him the next moment and he shrugged.

"No. I’m smart and very strategic, something you’d never be." He responded.

"This is a mess. Taylor, a lot is going on with you. You’re suddenly no longer the friend I know." Josh started, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"It’s best we stop being friends for now, and before you start, it’s not because of Jules." He explained and Taylor remained motionless before scoffing.

"Whatever, I don’t care. Also, his name isn’t Jules if you must know." He responded and Josh blinked.

"It’s not? What’s his name then?"

"It’s... Labyrinth." He whispered in a low voice and my heart fell right into my stomach.

"How did you know...?" I managed to get the words out and he crackled.

"I told you I was smart and strategic, didn’t I?" And after that, he whirled around and strutted down the hallway.

~~~

I was pacing Kim’s living room. After exiting the prey’s dormitory, I headed straight to his apartment because he summoned me.

And after I arrived, he revealed that he had finally been given a call by those higher ups who agreed to give him one last chance to bring me to them unfailingly.

"Chris reminded me that I couldn’t fail this time, and he reminded me that after this last chance given to him, I won’t be given another one." He explained and I bit on my bottom lip, heart racing. He had explained that Chris was the person he was in direct contact with from the entire higher ups and he revealed that Chris directly worked for Blaze’s father.

I was at a complete loss of what to say or think right now.

It’s currently after 4.00pm and he had explained that Chris had told him to bring me to him in approximately three hours. Apparently, he won’t be waiting past that duration.

"He’s a sicko for giving us such a short amount of time, we don’t even have time to strategize yet! What are we gonna do?" I cried out, pulling on my hair and instantly letting go because my scalp was hurting after the fight with Taylor.

Kim tried calming me down, assuring me that he wasn’t gonna try betraying Blaze this time by taking me to the higher ups, and that he was already past that because now he actually liked me. That made me burst into tears and I clung onto his arms because I also didn’t want to lose him. It was either he provided me to the higher ups or not, and no matter what happens today, he’d still get killed tonight and that made me feel sick to my stomach.

"Let me call Blaze, he’d know what to do." I whispered as I hurriedly whipped out my phone.

However, before I could connect the call, a text came in from Andrian.

’ I currently have your little friend named Elio with me. You’ll comply with me and do anything I say, because if you don’t, he’d die.’