Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother

Hardin

Dad was right, not like I could deny it. It was really okay for him to worry about me finding my mate, and maybe the reason why I flared up so much whenever he talked about it was how I badly avoided the talk.

I did not want him to keep on mentioning that I was mateless though it was a sad reality that was catching up faster with me than I could imagine.

My inauguration ceremony as a wolf was in a month’s time, and if I did not have a mate as at that time, then the position of the Alpha might as well be taken away from me.

“Fuck!” I cursed, slamming my hands on my car’s steering wheel.Content is property © NôvelDrama.Org.

School was over for the day, but for some reasons, I wanted to stay away from home. I had been driving about the pack, and frustratedly, I parked by the roadside to clear my thoughts.

The pressure from the elders was not something that I could handle and I understood that it was the reason why Russo was pushing so much and just maybe, it was not because he hates me.

I drew out a cigarette from the pack that was in my hands, and after lighting it, I decided to clear my worries with the puffs.

Maybe, it wasn’t helping so much, or just maybe, my worry was rather too much. Any of it, I wished that all of my worries could end, and I’ll have the freedom to breathe properly and move about the pack without having to hear murmurs about how I was without a mate.

Even at school, they were rumors, and the most I could do was to bully whoever it was that talked about it all in an attempt to hide my shame.

While my mind still wandered about so many things and me considering the options of having to mate someone else regardless of who the moon goddess had chosen for me, if she actually did, a beep came on my phone.

The only downsides of getting a mate that way was that the elders considered it as a bad omen most times and only allowed it if it is like in the case of my Dad, Russo, that lost his mate to the cold hands of death.

Sighing, I picked up my phone as another notification beep had come in. Opening it, I realized that it was from Jasmine.

“Hello Hardin, are you anywhere around the house?”

It was what the message read, and my brows furrowed as I went ahead to read the second message.

“Please answer me! There is something important that I want to talk to you about.”

Now, what was important that Jasmine wanted to say to me? I could only wonder.

It was definitely Camila that had asked her to message me to find out about my whereabouts. She probably wanted to start with the ‘good mother duties’ that I didn’t really like everytime, to tell me of how I should respect Russo as he is the Alpha, and how everything that he was doing was for my well-being.

I dropped my phone, and only picked it up when Sandro’s call came in.

“Hey man, is there any problem?”

“Not really,” Sandro said. “I was just wondering if you could come to the club downtown, I and Alex are here. And for some reason, he feels that you need to be here.”

“You should bro, I can’t tell when last you had a good time. Was going on up there?” Alex’s voice came through.

“Can you just let me talk? You had refused to call earlier. So let me be,” Sandro countered, and as it happens everytime, they started disputing between themselves, leaving me alone to talk on the phone with myself.

On a very normal day, when they are having these kinds of arguments, I’ll growl and they’d have to do away with the quarrels for the meantime.

But at that moment, nothing did interest me, including going to the club. Somehow, Sandro or Alex was going to bring a talk that related to their mate, and it really was not what I wanted to listen to at that moment.

While their quarrel still persisted, I hung up and was left with the last option that I had. Driving home.

The cottage would have been a very perfect idea if I had not gone out of supplies, food supplies precisely, and I was too lazy to hunt.

I could get every other food commodity from the market, but it was a rare thing to get fresh meat from the market. Only the pack mansion always had it in supply, and it was the exact thing that I longed for.

To maintain balance, laws were placed on huntings, to help regularize everything in the society.

I started my car engine, and began the ride home. And before I could even get to the pack mansion, another call came on my phone. This time, it was from Camila, and I guessed that whatever reasons she called me for, was the same as why Jasmine texted me endlessly.

The mansion felt the same as always, on arriving there, and I had only decided to take in the details of its beauty after coming across a picture of the mansion that my mom had taken before she asked that the interiors and exteriors be adjusted to her taste earlier today.

Undeniably, after comparing the photo with the appearance of the mansion now, my mother sure had a beautiful taste.

Thinking about her made my lips part into a smile, and just as I was about turning down the hallway, to my room, a voice interrupted me.

It was Russo’s.

“Where are you coming from?” He probed, and I heaved a deep sigh before walking to where he was.

From where he sat, Camila sat beside him, and Jasmine, opposite them.

It made me wonder about the family meeting that they had in my absence, which majorly consisted of my name. I could tell that my name was about what was on everybody’s mouth in the mansion, including that of the servants.

It explained why I got texts from Jasmine, and a call from Camila.

“You have not answered me, son. Where have you been?”

“I was spending some time at the cottage.”

“Oh wow!” Russo snapped, “I am not against where you are, or where you go. But I do hope that whatever you are doing is bringing you closer to finding your mate.” He mentioned, and I felt my blood boil.

He never spared a minute to remind me that there was so much in front of me, beginning from steps that he feels should be as basic as finding my mate.

“You leave me no choice, son. I think I’ll have to host a ball in the coming week so you can find your mate.”

“Okay.” That was the only reply that I gave him, and turned to leave when he stopped me again.

“Jasmine has been waiting for you. She is dressed, you should take her to her instructor today, and stay with her until she’s done with training.”

I raised my eyes to Jasmine, and then nodded at Russo. Maybe it was me overthinking, but she was avoiding having any eye contact with me.

I had an idea that it was related to the night of the full moon. I could tell little about the details of what had happened that night, but I knew my wolf had gone wilder than I could control, and was burning in lust for Jasmine.

“Let’s go.”

“Okay, I will quickly pick up my kit,” she answered, and I walked back to the car, leaving her behind.

The ride to her training ground suddenly felt like a long one. It was probably because of how Jasmine felt uneasy around me.

Unable to put up with the tense atmosphere, I let out my question.

“You had told me that you wanted to text me, Jasmine. What is it?”

“I had?” She suddenly turned to me, and I shook my head wondering if she had suddenly gone mad.

“Yes you did. Or do I have to remind you too?

I picked up my phone and placed it in front of her face without waiting for her.

“See?”

“Ohhh…” she drawled, as though realization had suddenly hit her.

“It was nothing. I mean, Dad was asking about your whereabouts and I needed you to drive me to training.” She mentioned.

“Nothing more?”

“Yes, nothing more.”

I nodded, then let out a low sigh, “okay.”

The ride continued till we got to Jasmine’s training ground. It was then that I noticed the dense forest that had been on that side of the wild, and I decided to go for a run while waiting for her.

After so many days of having to think so much, I felt rather glad that I was freeing my wolf and getting to enjoy this moment of relaxation.

But something happened.

One that I had not imagined.

The scent that I had been waiting to perceive.

The scent that its absence was making me go crazy.

I had never felt it before, but from what I was told, it was how elated every wolf felt on finding their mate.

And I turned, running to the direction from where it came from. Only stopping when I met myself back in the training ground where I had left Jasmine and her tutor.

“You seem excited. What is it?” Her tutor asked, and my brows arched as I tried to settle in.

“It’s nothing,” I muttered, while my gaze wandered about the field.

The scent was gone.

Had I not felt my mate now? Or the moon goddess was messing with me again?

My shoulders slacked. My high expectations were definitely affecting my sense of smell.