Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother

CHAPTER 58.

~Jasmine.

Acting out and overstepping boundaries were not on the list of my favorite things to do, but, rummaging through Lisa’s room that morning was the only thing I could think of. It had been stuck to my mind from the minute I woke up, I guess it was the effect of the suspicious meeting that Lisa had been having under the cloak with those strangers.

Immediately I noticed Lisa step out of the house, I rushed to her room to clear my suspicions . Her room was not as untidy as I had imagined but, it was not entirely tidy. A few clothes were on the floor, some lingerie especially-draped on the couch in the room, and the nightgown she wore to bed last night was sitting on her bedside table.

And, I began my search from there. A bottle of aspirin, a scented candle and a few make-up were all I could find in it, nothing close to what I was looking for.

Heck! I didn’t know what I was looking for, but, I continued my search. I looked under the bed, lifted the mattress, all negative. Likewise, under the couch and inside the couch. I pulled out every drawer I could find in the room but, all I could find were lingeries, I bet she could open a massive store with them. Empty bottles of aspirin, love notes surprisingly and a few make – up.

My heart pricked as I stared at her wardrobe, it was the last place for me to look. I didn’t want to look there but, the urge to clear my suspicions drew me in and no sooner than later, I found myself searching through the wardrobe, carefully checking each pocket of each cloth.

“Crap!” I muttered with a sigh as I stood at akimbo and stared into the wardrobe. I had found nothing in the wardrobe, which happened to be the cleanest place in the room.

Mom’s health was deteriorating and Lisa was my chief suspect, but, I couldn’t lay claims on her if I had nothing to hold on to. Despite being determined to bust Lisa, I was somewhat convinced that I wasn’t going to find anything. Lisa was a fox, everybody knew.

As I made to close the door to the wardrobe, my eyes caught a small opening on the floor of the wardrobe. It had nearly gone unnoticed by me due to how skillfully it had been covered.

Stooping, I lifted the floorboard. It was there that I gasped. The package was still as she had taken it, still wrapped up in that fat yellow envelope, save the fact that the seal had already been broken. Quickly, I dug out the gloves I had come with, wrapped them around my wrists and grabbed the envelope.

They were yellowish-black, the dried up flower I found in the envelope. I had taken a sample from Lisa’s room, and now, I was pacing my room trying to figure out what the hell that thing was.

I had been googling but no search was getting me a bit close to what I wanted. Sighing in defeat, I grabbed the sample and made to Hardin’s room almost at the same time as Lisa’s return.

With a light knock on his door, I walked into his room.

“I never said come in,” He was laying shirtless on the bed with his body frame covering the whole bed. He didn’t move a muscle even upon hearing me come in.

“I’m sorry, I just had to talk to you about something important,” he still was not looking my way and I took it that he was listening.

“It is about Lisa and my… our mom’s sickness.” His eyes, which were formerly fixed to the ceiling, turned to me immediately, and I shuddered at those ocean eyes that seemed to be looking into my soul. He slowly lifted himself up the bed to sit at the edge of it.

“Come,” he signalled with a finger but, it felt as though those eyes were daring me not to even breathe.

“Come over here, Jasmine, and, detail me on what you know.” He humphed, and I shoveled my legs to his side.

“What’s the big idea?” Hardin asked, sounding almost impatient.

“You know how Lisa has been picking on my mom ever since we arrived?” I didn’t mean for him to respond but, he nodded, “when my mom suddenly fell sick, I had this gut feeling that Lisa was responsible for the strange sickness but, I didn’t know how to prove it. But then, after consistently seeing her acting suspicious, and receiving that package from the strange-looking guy, I went to search her room and found this today.”

I placed the flower on the table before him and he picked it up almost as it touched the table.

“I have searched every part of the internet I can lay my hands on, but I couldn’t find the name.”

He pushed up the bed, bringing those ungodly abs into view, and I gasped inwardly. I was not entitled to do so, but, I did.

He grabbed his phone from his nightstand, “pass me the flower.” And I handed it to him.

“Henbane,” he announced, distracting me from my thoughts.

“Huh?” I asked with a blink.

“This fucking flower is a henbane. A fucking poisonous plant that kills slowly, Jasmine.” He was chewing his teeth. “This plant better be for other reasons because, if she fucking has anything to do with my mom’s death, I swear…” He paused.

He never swore that much, and I guessed he was angry, I guess he was enraged.

“Come with me,” he tightened his grip on the thin stem of the flower and stormed out of the room to Lisa’s. But we met her in the living room about to leave again.

“What the fuck, Lisa?” He blurted, coming to block her way.

“Uhm, language boy.” She rolled her eyes up and down him and made to walk away by his side, but Hardin stood at akimbo, giving her a clear signal that she wasn’t going anywhere.

I guess Lisa saw the flower in Hardin’s hand because, I can swear, her eyes dilated for a while out of fear.

“What are you two up to? I never mentioned to either of you that I have the time or strength for jokes.”

Hardin raised the flower to her face and she took some steps back, “you recognize this?”

“It’s a flower, stupid, everyone can see it.” Lisa responded.

“Don’t play dumb with me, Lisa. I know what this is and, I know you know what this is so, come on Lisa, tell me that it’s not what I am thinking.”

Hardin’s free hand was tightening in a fist at intervals, and I could see him chewing his teeth to call himself. I felt like a spectator watching the two of them.

“And, so what if it is what you are thinking?” Lisa snickered.

“I can tear you into a thousand pieces right now, so don’t play with me, woman.”

“Who says I was? If you know what it is that you are holding, you’ll dip yourself in water and wash your body for a whole week.”

“What do you mean by that? What is that flower?” I asked, and she turned to glare at me, her eyes telling hatred and disgust.

“Hasn’t your little boyfriend told you yet? It’s a lollipop.” She smirked and turned to Hardin, “Now you know what it is, out of my way, boy.”

I actually felt my heart skip when Lisa called Hardin my boyfriend, but I didn’t want to react to any of her accusations.RêAd lat𝙚St chapters at Novel(D)ra/ma.Org Only

“You killed my mom, Lisa! And you are slowly doing the same thing to Jasmine’s mom.”

She gasped, “you can’t go about accusing people of murder, Hardin.”

“I frigging have the evidence in my hand!” His anger was beginning to take over him. I could see his claws coming out.

He had some guts, I guess that’s what makes him the alpha because even with the evidence, I could never say Lisa killed his mom.

“Well, we all know she deserved what she got.” And, it was Hardin’s turn to gasp but, his was soft and heartbreaking.

“What did you just say?” His voice came out in a whisper.

“I killed your mom, yes, I am saying it out loud. And I regret not killing her earlier, I should have done that when we were still little so that she will be dead and long forgotten.”

“That is such a mean thing to say.” I blurted.

“But, she did deserve what she got, didn’t she? She was always good at claiming what was mine but, I knew her time was up when she claimed Russo and the position as Luna. It had always been my dream to be Luna, that position was meant for me!” She turned to me with a glare, “and I thought that after I got my silly sister out of the way, everything will fall in place but, no, you and that hag of a mother had to spoil my whole plan!”

She grabbed her bag and took out the package in it, it was almost the same thing as what I had found in her room. She took out the package and turned it over. All the flowers that were in, fell to the ground.

“I was going to grind those to a fine powder, and I was going to keep adding to your mom’s meals to make sure she dies a slow yet painful death.”

“And I guess you didn’t have much luck with that, did you now?”

We all turned to the direction of the voice to see Alpha Russo, standing in the doorway with a deeper frown than Hardin’s.