Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother novel Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Jasmine's POV

Looking away from my phone after I read the message, I saw that Hardin's glare was on me, his expression tortured as if he was expecting me to defend myself or argue with his horrid accusations.

He looked like he had been expecting a verbal response from me after he had all but called me and my mother names and informed us that he had reported to his aunt.

Well, I guessed he really hated us that much and before today, I knew that I would have responded immediately, but now that I felt some sort of empathy towards what he might be going through and the changes that he had no choice but to accept immediately, my desire to argue with him had waned considerably.

My phone buzzed again and when I saw that it was my mother, I picked it up and answered, still keeping my eyes trained on Hardin's whose face had hardened.

I knew that with his supernatural hearing, he would hear everything that the other person on the other end of the

phone was saying with premium ease and it made me envy him even more for being able to shift into a wolf at will and be blessed with everything that came with the supernatural.

I had nothing. Except for the claws, my senses were pretty much ordinary and nothing was heightened. I was a human with claws.

"Hey, where are you? School closed a while ago? Are you okay?"

I looked back at Hardin who was waiting patiently for me to answer.

"Yeah, I'm fine, I'll be home soon."

"Okay, did you get my message? And have you been able to find Hardin? His dad has been trying to reach him but his phone is turned off."

I looked at Hardin and mouthed if I could say yes. Surprisingly, he agreed.

"Yeah, I've found him. And yeah I saw your message."

Apparently, there was a guest at home. A very important guest and I could hear the nervousness in my mother's voice.

It intrigued me because my mum was hardly ever rattled about anything.

Looking at Hardin to see that he had finished eating, I reached for the lunchbox to pack it up, flinching when our hands brushed and refusing to look up at him because I was scared that he would catch me staring at his lips and say something completely lewd and uncouth.

"I'm done. Come on, let's go" I said when I was done packing and Hardin raised his brow, probably about to say something about him being the one to give the orders but I was surprised when he held himself back and rose to his feet, towering over me.

We walked in tense silence back to the house and when we entered the living room, I saw my mother sitting with a woman, her posture stiff while the woman spoke to her about something.

The first thing I noticed was that the guest had strawberry blonde hair that stopped at her shoulders.

"Oh, there they are." My mother said, rising to her feet when she saw Hardin and I, her smile forced and uncomfortable. I was about to walk up to her and ask what was going on, when the woman she was speaking to, finally turned around and rose to her feet.

My mouth fell open in shock at first because I had seen this woman before. Anyone that was in this pack knew Lily Morales, Hardin's mother plus I had seen some of her pictures around the house and the person standing in front of me was a spitting image of her.

The same blue eyes that Hardin had, but her strawberry blonde hair was cropped short whereas she used to wear it longer.

I looked at my mother for an explanation and when she looked at Hardin, I turned to look at him and saw that he was not surprised at all.

The woman smiled widely as she took in my perplexed state and took a step forward.

"I'm sure you're wondering why I look like Hardin's mother. I'm Lily's twin sister, Lisa and Hardin's aunt. You should have seen your mother's face when I walked in. She thought I had come from the dead to take back my husband." She laughed and then covered her mouth with one hand.