Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother

Chapter 48 – Jasmine

Jasmine

“What do you think you’re doing Lorenzo?” I asked again, and he seemed genuinely confused by my reaction. He seemed to be confused, and had made to kiss me again. But my second rejection seemed to have made things a bit clearer for him.

“Get away from me” I yelled as I pulled away from his touch.

“Get away from you? I thought you wanted this?” Lorenzo asked. He seemed to have misread our friendship. I did like him, but clearly not in the way he had in his mind.

“Wanted this? Is this what the whole friendship was about?”

“You are getting everything wrong, Jasmine,” Lorenzo voiced out, and tried touching my cheeks again.

“Don’t you dare,” I said to Lorenzo, but it did feel like my words had little effects on him.

At that moment, I began to regret all the decisions I had taken that day.

If only I had just stayed away from Lorenzo as Hardin always warned? Or maybe, if I had gone home with Nadia or even Hardin?

I had been trying all I could to escape Hardin’s harrassments, but I could swear that I did feel more comfortable compared to having Lorenzo kiss me.

“Can you just take me back home, Lorenzo? I mean, so we keep this friendship and act like all of this did not happen, because I’m clearly disappointed in you.”

At my words, his face had contorted into a frown, and I got worried thinking that I had annoyed him. But it was not the case, his next statement made it clear.

“You are disappointed in me? Because I tried to kiss you? Did you not know all along that I have been interested in you this way?”

From his reply, I began to wonder if I actually knew who Lorenzo was.

“I think I know now.” He said, and I immediately turned my gaze to him wondering what he knew.

“It’s all because of Hardin!”

“Hardin now? You are now bringing Hardin into this?”

“Yes! He always feeds you with lies and rubbish about me. He tells you to stay away from me, and you blindly listen. Even with all the unimaginable things that I have seen him do to you. Is there anything about the both of you that I don’t know, Jasmine?”

I did not even know what to feel at that point. I shook my head, and made to open the car door to leave before Lorenzo stopped me.

“Don’t you dare come close to me!” I rebuffed before stepping out of the vehicle and walking away. Lorenzo stepped down too, and had begun chasing after me. But I kept yelling at him to stay back.

My anger filled yells seemed to have attracted attention towards us, because a car had pulled up beside me and had asked of the situation. I didn’t reply the stranger, but he didn’t seem like he was going to leave me alone, and neither did Lorenzo.

“If you want to get away from him I can give you a ride back to town” The stranger offered. On a normal day I wouldn’t even think about entering this stranger’s car. But Lorenzo was advancing towards me fast, and I wanted to be as far away as possible from him at the moment.

I had reluctantly entered the strangers vehicle, and he had zoomed off in the same second.

“Thank you.” I appreciated his kindness.

“Can you drop me a couple meters from here. I can get back on my own.” I only wanted to get away from Lorenzo, and now that I had managed to do so, I wanted to be out of this stranger’s vehicle.

My words were ignored, and the car had immediately increased in speed.

“Excuse me?” I tried to get the driver’s attention, but his reply told me immediately that it was a kidnap.

“Shut up and sit back down!” The stranger yelled back at me. Instinctively, I had pulled out my cellphone and had dialed the first number I saw, it was Lorenzo’s.

I had barely spoken a word, when my phone was snatched forcefully from my hand. My attempt to call for help had fetched me a slap, and curses from the driver who proceeded to smash my phone.

I was genuinely scared, but upon staring backwards from the window, I had caught sight of Lorenzo’s car speeding towards us. He probably would have attacked the stranger from behind, but he didn’t want to risk us crashing to our death.

The stranger seemed to have noticed the approaching vehicle and had stepped harder on the acceleration pedal. However Lorenzo’s car was faster, and it wasn’t long before it caught up and intercepted ours.

Swiftly running out of the car, I raced towards Lorenzo, but the stranger was faster and pulled me backwards.

“Don’t come closer or I’ll kill her” He threatened, but Lorenzo wasn’t listening. He was still advancing, and the stranger seemed to have been annoyed by his disobedience which made him push me to the ground before going at Lorenzo.

The stranger attacked first, his speed was impeccable, and I was actually surprised Lorenzo was able to react on time to his blows.

I was genuinely afraid for Lorenzo, but I knew getting involved would only be a hindrance for him. I could only stand aside and do my best to call for help. Besides, I was weak and there was absolutely no help that I could offer to him at that point.

“Lorenzo!” I yelled out in concern.

He wasn’t doing well against his opponent, and if things continued like that, I feared he might actually die.

His speed and strength had drastically decreased, and I knew that if Lorenzo continued the battle, he was inevitably going to lose.

I was really scared and more concerned about the fact that even if Lorenzo manages to survive it, I might not be able to. The stranger had put in so much effort just to get Lorenzo out of the way, which meant that he was clearly prepared to come for me and the kidnap was not something that happened out of coincidence.

And as the fight kept on happening in front of me, the memories of the forest attack incidence began to replay in my head, and I suddenly felt the same fear return to me.

“Mum…” Involuntarily, I began to stutter, but it did not help, as the tears continued to fall on my cheeks.

Lorenzo was bleeding from all over and his eyes narrowed towards me. I had no idea what he was thinking, but I genuinely wished he didn’t continue with the fight. I did not want him to risk his life for me anymore.This content © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

And I had no idea what he was doing before coming to meet me, but he looked clearly exhausted.

All of it was my fault!

If I had not stepped out of the car, and entered into a random car.

If I had not raised a quarrel because of the kiss. Definitely, the effect would not have been as much as it had gotten to, right?

I was still confused and did not know what to think any more. Subconsciously muttering silent prayers that somehow, help will come.

And somehow it did.

The stranger was just about to take advantage of Lorenzo’s distracted self, as his gaze had averted to me. And just as he wanted to give Lorenzo another punch, he was intercepted by Hardin.

My eyes widened in shock, ‘What is he doing here?’ I could only wonder.

As much as his presence was life saving, he was the last person that I expected to come save me at that moment, or even Lorenzo.

Mainly because it was no hidden fact that he detested Lorenzo, and also because he had warned me on different occasions to stay away from Lorenzo.

I was only bringing unintended trouble to myself which made me feel sad.

Immediately he intercepted, Hardin held the attacking stranger’s wrist and snapped it before flinging the man into a tree. Hardin’s eyes had turned yellow and I could tell he wasn’t here for games. He didn’t fully transform, only a mild one. But it was more than enough to handle his opponent.

I watched the stranger rise to his feet, regaining his composure. But instead of attacking Hardin, he had aimed for me. It was all too sudden, and I wasn’t even able to get away from his impending claw.

I was waiting for my neck to be sliced off my body, but instead, the body of the stranger fell with a thud to the floor.

Hardin had snapped his neck.

“Har… din…” I couldn’t vocalize my words because Hardin had grabbed me forcefully and pulled me up from the floor.

“What on earth do you think you’re doing here?” His voice was clouded with rage. I wanted to answer, but he wouldn’t let me.

“You bitch! Always getting in trouble and leaving the blame on me! What do you think father will say you when you come home looking like this?! He’s going to call me incompetent because of you!” He yelled out before forcefully releasing me from his grip.

I fell back on my buttocks, but I didn’t complain. Hardin reached for the already battered Lorenzo and had punched him twice.

“And you bastard, you can’t even protect a lady! You brought her out here, and you couldn’t even protect her!” He was visibly enraged, and had wanted to punch Lorenzo once again but I had interfered.

“I’m sorry” I whispered.

He had paused and had turned towards me. I felt his anger dwindle, but he wasn’t mellow yet.

“Get up, we’re going home.”