Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother

Chapter 72

Jasmine

The only thing that kept me from falling back after I had heard what Jasmine said, was the pillar that I had held as a support.

Even as it was not physical – her words, the gravity of my guilt immediately clouded my mind and I hated myself for how terrible I had been all along.

That the baby in her womb was mine? And that as much as I can be the way that I am, she would never be so reckless as to have some sort of intimacy with any other man.

I had been a terrible person all along, with the way I just thrust my dick into any lady’s hole.

“I have been terrible,” I muttered out. And then, remembering how I had not just had sex with other girls, but brought them to Jasmine’s knowledge by making her watch videos made me cringe.

I was completely shocked at everything Jasmine said to Lorenzo. I didn’t know this was how she felt till now and I feel like a total idiot, a sadist and a maniac.

I’ll have to apologize sincerely to her. It was not something I enjoyed doing, but for the sake of our bond. I can’t have my mate detest me now.

Serves you right. My wolf said and I snarled at him. The only time he knew he wanted to talk was whenever I was in a position that he could easily mock me. Well, because I had warned him one time to do himself a good job of sensing his mate, rather than trying to give me advice every single time. Maybe if I had listened to him, I would not have been in the fucked up situation that I was in.

When I found out that my mate was Jasmine, and that she had been under my nose all along, I totally felt like a stupid person.

Even as her wolf was not active yet, which was a clear reason why I could not sense her all along, my instincts should have told me better.

Maybe it did. Maybe it explained why I had mixed feelings for Jasmine, even as I tried hating her.

Just as I noticed that she had been taken captive, I wasted no time, running back home and immediately mobilizing soldiers to come along with me, so we could go save Jasmine.

Dad had asked me what the matter was, and in a hurry, I told him that I was going to explain when I was back, only allowing him to let me go when I announced to him that Jasmine was in serious trouble.

I sighed, before looking at the guard who was walking towards my direction, drinking from a cup. I immediately hid and as he passed by me, I hit him straight in the guts and he fell unconscious.

They had only informed Lorenzo that there was an intruder. Little did he know that it was ‘intruders’ that were on to him. I had made sure that one of my warriors showed himself, to distract Lorenzo from the time being, while I went straight to where they had kept Jasmine, get her out and leave.

The other warriors that I went with, were to stay around and only show up if the whole escape thing did not go as planned.

My pack and Lorenzo’s pack had not been best of friends from time immemorial which was another reason why I detested him, so it was wiser to play the safe card.

I hurriedly changed into his outfit and hid my hair under the helmet he was wearing.

Turning into a corridor, my ears picked the clanging sound of metals against themselves. Lorenzo had somehow gotten knowledge of the men that I kept aside, and they were already fighting. I wanted to quickly join the rest of them and fight, losing was not something that I liked doing, and as much as we wanted victory, I did not want to incur any loss of lives.

“I think they came for her, and I can sense that brat somewhere around. Ask the guys to keep a closer look at her, and at the same time, keep your eyes out for him.” I heard Lorenzo’s voice. With what I could make it, he was addressing his assistant.

I smirked, recalling that he had called me brat. I might not be in the best of state, as my mate was their captive, but I was sure going to make him pay for thinking that he could compare with me in strength.

“He obviously forgets so quickly.” With my teeth gritted, I decided to focus on finding Jasmine first. From the clanging of metals that had been going on, my men were fighting pretty good and it gave me enough time to get to Jasmine before the other guys could, and take her somewhere else.

A small number of guards stood at the mansion at that point and I was guessing that Lorenzo’s pack was possibly in a war with some other pack. It was one thing that they enjoyed doing, causing troubles and having to fight.

Some guards, two precisely, marched towards a room and from the scent that I could pick there, Jasmine was there.

Her intoxicating scent didn’t fail to fill up my head and I couldn’t help but fall into the deep muskiness of her scent. I got myself together and walked towards the origin of the scent just then, I saw Lorenzo walk out of the room. He gave the guards that were at the door a stern warning of how they should keep their eyes on her.

He looked around suspiciously before walking away. I made sure he was gone before sneaking closer to the door. With the uniform that I had on, the guards did not see any cause to create any alarm right until I got closer and snapped off the head of one of the wolves, leaving me with one more to fight. Well, if there was no more guard inside of the room.

The other guard that immediately got alerted, drew out his sword. And as he charged at me, I sent the dagger that I had along with me straight into his chest. Good thing that the dagger was poisoned so it was less stressful trying to make sure that he was dead.

They had started the killing spree when I saw him draw his sword into one of my men, so it was no harm doing the same. He should not have dared kidnapping Jasmine in the first place.

Wiping off the blood in the dagger with a piece of cloth that I had torn from the guard, I stepped into the room. And it was there that I saw Jasmine curled up in a corner. As she looked up at me, she gasped in shock. I didn’t know what exactly was going through her mind but her expression definitely didn’t show any of it at all.

“I’m here to rescue you from Lorenzo, Jasmine.” I said as I rushed over to the bed to help her up.

“What are you doing here?” She finally found her voice when I carried her out of the bed and it was then that I realized that she was chained to the bed.

I dropped her on the bed and with one pull, I cut the chain off. He didn’t even use a strong chain. He underestimated her that much?

“I’m here to rescue you like I said.” I replied and all she did was snort before I pushed the door open with her still in my arms.

“We really do not have so much time. Can you just let me?” I mentioned, but instead of complying, her response was rather repulsive.

“I am no longer the filthy slut you can’t even look at? Why did you even come to save me in the first place? I don’t want to be your charity case.” She hissed and I could hear a hint of anger in her voice.

“Please we’ll discuss well once we get out of here. I just want you to know that I am really sorry Jasmine. I heard everything you and Lorenzo spoke about, and as much as it was not why I came to save you, I hope that you do forgive me,” I said to her and she was quiet for a few seconds.

“So you were eavesdropping. I hope you’ve gotten the information you need to hear.” She replied not changing the tone she spoke to me with and I knew she was still angry and hurt.

We managed to get out of the mansion. I moved as fast as I could far away from the house before dropping her and breaking the cuff on her ankle.

“Look Jasmine, I didn’t know that’s how you felt. I didn’t mean to treat you in any way wrong. I was just not in my right senses.” I said to her and she laughed.

“So now that you realize we’re mates, you are now in your right senses? So you can use me to get your alpha position and once again leave me and insult me, humiliate me! I might have been a fool the first time but not twice Hardin.” She growled angrily and I pulled my hands up in a surrender.

“I’m not going to do any of that to you, trust me. I want to make up for the wrong I did.” I replied and she looked at me like she was disgusted by the way I was standing there.

“Like the way I trusted you in the first place and you broke my trust. You humiliated me…”

“Let the lady go, Hardin. You’ve caused her enough pain and humiliation for one time.”

I heard Lorenzo’s voice from behind and we both looked in his direction.

“It is none of your business.” I snarled.

“Leave the lady alone or you’ll regret it. I’ll give you a mark you’ll continue bearing till the end of time.” He threatened again.

“You don’t tell me what to do, Lorenzo. I will advise that you stay off my business and respect the fact that we are not best of friends.” I warned and made to leave with Jasmine, but he growled.

“You don’t deserve her, and I won’t let you take her. I’ve seen you abuse her countless times, and you can’t suddenly come and act like everything is well between the both of you.”

He was trying his luck again. To piss Jasmine off, and make her hate for me increase and maybe choose him over me. It now made more sense to me why I had detested him from the start. He was sly, and his character was not one that I enjoyed putting up with.

“And what will you do if I don’t let go of her?” I teased. This time, I was trying to use his game against him. He should get really angry and try to attack me. I was not going to let Lorenzo make Jasmine see the bad part of me anymore.

“You really don’t want to know.” He muttered.

“Bring it on.” I shrugged, and he immediately shifted to his wolf form. I wasn’t left out either. I shifted immediately and he charged at me.

I didn’t give him any space to fight back and we both rolled on the floor, tackling each other. With the corner of my eyes, I saw Jasmine curl up into a ball as she stared at both of us wanting to tear our insides out because of her.

I wouldn’t let Lorenzo take her away just because she told him all about this. It didn’t mean I could not change my attitude. It didn’t mean I couldn’t mend my mistakes.

I charged at Lorenzo as I bit deep into the back of his neck and he rolled on the floor, shifting to his human form. His neck was bleeding already and he glared daggers at me as he saw the blood.

He growled, fangs displayed, furious, “You’re going to regret this Hardin.”Belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - All rights reserved.

I immediately shifted to my human form with a sly smirk on my face. “Who will give who the everlasting mark now? Bring it on fool.”

“You don’t want to see me at my worst, Hardin,” Lorenzo bawled, and bared his teeth at me.

As he charged towards me, Jasmine shrieked and we both stopped in our advances to look at her.

“What is your problem?” She screamed, standing on her feet with her wobbly legs. “If you want to kill yourselves, you can as well do that immediately but don’t do that because of me. I don’t care about any of you. I don’t know you both at all and I don’t care if you drop dead or something. I’m leaving right now.”

And after screaming at us, reminding us that we acted foolish most of the time, she shifted to her wolf form and ran into the forest.