Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother

Chapter 74

Jasmine

For the most part of the night, I struggled to sleep.

I spent it thinking about what I was going to do and I must have dozed off again, thankfully without having to wake up in the middle of the night this time, because there was a knock on the door and when I opened my eyes, the sun was already up.

“Who is it?” I muttered out, as a yawn escaped my lips. I had definitely placed my neck in the wrong position while I slept, because it was hurting terribly.

“It’s Lily. I have a message for you from the Alpha.” The quaint voice said.

Massaging my neck, I left the bed and opened the door, to meet Lily standing with a tray of food in her hands.

I must have slept so long, I could not even meet with breakfast at the table.

“Your mother asked me to bring this up. Can I bring it in?”

I nodded and moved aside for her to enter.

“Thank you,” I mentioned as she kept it for me. And when she made to leave, she halted in her steps and turned back, causing my eyes to narrow.

“Is anything the matter?” My hands still massaged my neck, thankfully it no longer hurt as much as it did when I woke up.

“The Alpha would like to meet with you in the living room when you are done with your breakfast.” She said, and when I nodded in response, Lily bowed, then left the room after.

Knowing that whatever I was going to talk about with Russo would probably take a while, I forced myself to eat and swallowed down the nausea, quickly showering and heading to the living room.

I knew Russo wanted to talk to me, but what I did not expect was to be met by 3 pair of eyes staring straight at me. Russo, Mom and Hardin, and though I could already guess what the talk was related to, I decided to not make any assumptions yet.

When I entered, Mom rushed to me and pulled me in for a hug before releasing me.

“Jasmine dear,” she said, gesturing towards a chair and when she offered me water, I took it.

There was a moment of silence after I had sat down and their gaze fixed on me began to prickle my skin. Russo’s gaze was stern, and mom’s eyes held so many different emotions. I did not want to look at Hardin. But the time I had stared at him as I walked into the living room, his eyes held an emotion that I could liken to guilt. But I was not ready to be swayed by any of those fake pretenses just so he retains his position, especially not after all what he had put me through.

My decision was going to be a tough one, I was well aware. Every single time I tried staying away from Hardin, my wolf sulked. But maybe if she had been with me earlier, then she would realize why staying away from him was the best choice for us.

Russo relaxed back into his chair, and began to speak, his eyes constantly fixed on mine.

“I want to talk to you about a sensitive matter and I hope that I have your understanding. Can I go on?”

“Yes Dad.” I smiled, a forced smile.

“Hardin right here, just informed us that you are his mate, and even if it got me and your mother really surprised and a little bit confused, what beats us most is that he told us that you are not accepting the mate relationship. Do you have a reason for doing that, dear?”

I did not have a reply to all Russo had said. Hardin was at it again, as from the way Russo sounded, Hardin had not mentioned about the times that he abused me.

He was still terrible and there was no hope for change for him.

“Jasmine,” Mom walked closer to me as she called out. “I know you and Hardin did not start on a very good end. But the mate bond, it is a union formed by the moon goddess and there is nothing that we can do about it. I’m afraid you might have to work on every loose end with Hardin and come to the acceptance that he is your mate.”

I stared at Hardin, he was doing the exact thing that he had been doing since I stepped out, keeping a pity face. The same face that I had whenever I begged him to not come close to me, but he would not listen.

He was acting innocent, and whenever I looked innocent, he would call me a slut.

My teeth gritted in anger as I remembered every single shit that I had to face from Hardin.

Maybe I would have felt less annoyed if he had not worsened it by opening his mouth to speak and when he did, I flared up.

“You are saying sorry now? Sorry for what exactly?”

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“Just stop it!” I interrupted him. Mom and Russo probably did not expect my outburst, I also did not. But this time, I wanted to speak.

“You actually did run to Dad and Mom now to tell them about my refusal? The same people that you threatened that I don’t speak to about any of your abuse, right?! You know what, you started it, I will help you finish it.” I yelled, without even taking a break to breathe.

Russo and Mom had surprise on their faces, but they did not say anything and allowed me to speak.

“Mom really, I don’t know what Hardin is sorry for now. If it is for the many times that he forced himself into me, abusing me.” Gasps filled the room, gasps from Russo and Mom. But I was not done.

“Or if it is the time that he called me names in school, slut, daughter of a slut, whore, all of them that he did. Or for making me fear him so much that I could keep my mouth shut when he entered inside of me and stole my virginity.”

Russo’s teeth were gritted now, and the rage in him filled the whole room. Mom was emotional, always emotional and it was making me tear up.

Hardin’s face had fallen but I did not care.

“Now because he finds out that I am his mate, he is coming with the apologies. Ask him if I was not the one begging all those times, or if he had at least apologized when he got me pregnant, but instead he pushed me away and claimed that I had gone sleeping with someone else!”

I had said a lot of things in the room, so many. And everyone of it sparked up Russo and Mom. But they did not see the pregnancy coming.

It felt like a bomb had been dropped in the room, and everyone had to go silent.

“You are pregnant?” Somehow, Russo and mom managed to ask at the same time, and I nodded in response.

“And Hardin is the one responsible for it, and every other abuse. Under my roof!” Russo muttered. It did sound like a question, but I realized that he was just talking to himself with the feeling of regret as annoyance washed over him.

“Hardin!” Russo bawled out, his face fighting to remain calm. But I doubted that Russo achieved the purpose of staying calm as he used his fist to punch Hardin immediately he stood in front of him.

I had seen Russo in many states, but I had never seen him throwing punches at his son. I felt bad as Hardin growled in pain, and Mom kept on begging Russo to not make any rash decision, but the beast in Hardin deserves more than all of that.

“This your misbehavior gets me disappointed all the time and I really wonder if you are of my blood. I knew you were always fighting, womanizing and doing every other rubbish in school. But sexually abusing your sister? Tell me, who else have you abused?”

After keeping quiet for so long, Hardin finally spoke. “I have not been that way with anyone else. And I am not in denial of all Jasmine had said, but if she would please listen to me, I am really sorry for all that I made her go through, and I am ready to take whatever punishments it is as long as Jasmine forgives me.”

“Including your position as Alpha?” I had just asked to remind him that he was bluffing, which Russo supported.

To our surprise, he nodded, “including my position as Alpha. I have really been a terrible person to you and I just hope that you can forgive me.”

I scoffed. Now, he was saying things he could not do. And I did not like that he was. I wanted more reasons to hate him.

“I am really disappointed in everything that Hardin did. But can we think of what to do next now? The mate bond, you are step siblings and it’s never been heard off” Mom’s voice came and it held so much worry.

“It bothers me too,” Russo added. “I have just heard so many things today and I don’t know which to take first. But about the mate bond, since it is made by the moon goddess, I doubt that we are left with any choice than to proclaim the both of them as mates.” Mom nodded slightly at what he said, while I just stared at nothing.

“But for Jasmine’s forgiveness that Hardin wants, I am choosing to not interfere. And don’t try to persuade her,” Russo said to mom, “he should work for it.”