Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother novel Chapter 33

Jasmine

Lisa's behavior that I had noticed some nights ago still troubled me. I always knew she was not someone to trust, no doubt. But everyday it got worse. Now, the new one that she had suddenly learnt was to keep herself in isolation, and act like the person treated wrongly at every opportunity.

Initially, I felt that she was just fighting for Hardin, considering that it was the excuse she had used to stay in the house for long, but everyday was taking her farther away from what she claimed to be.

Even Hardin had become wary of Lisa as he shunned her at every occasion that she tried playing the emotional blackmail part.

Earlier today, I rushed to look for mom not long after I woke up, as I remembered that I had to talk to her about not doing anything big for me on my birthday. She always tried to go out of her way to make me feel good on my birthday which was now having the opposite effect on me. And it was not yet my birthday already, but the maids were already talking about it, confirming my belief that mom had made it loud and had other plans for it which I knew little of.

And just when I met mom at the garden, I saw Lisa shouting at her, saying things that I knew clearly hurt her. It was visible on her face.

Lisa said mom was the reason for everything she was going through right at her sister's husband house as mom agreed to married Russo in the first place. And that, the first time Russo and Hardin raised their voice to her was because of us.

She added that mom is making Hardin to disregard her, which kind of cracked me up, because Hardin never respected anyone, and he was clearly matured enough to know what he was doing. So claiming that mom was trying to control Hardin's recent actions to her was something that held no grounds.

The insult became so much as I walked closer to where they stood, and just as I was about to speak up, I heard another voice. It was Hardin.

The way he growled at Lisa literally made everyone of us to shiver. He had the authority of an Alpha wolf and certainly, Lisa's wolf cowered and had to submit to Hardin.

But the growling was not all. Hardin went further and asked Lisa to apologise to mom for falsely accusing her of what she did not do, and at that point, I felt like I was just imagining things.

But it was not any of it.

Lisa, right in front of me apologized to mom, and as much as the victory felt beautiful, it still pained me that if we had not intervened, mom would have silently taken in everything Lisa said.

The part of Hardin stopping Lisa from doing some things was not really new, but yelling at her with his wolf dominance, was what I did not see coming, not in the nearest future.

Maybe Hardin was finally changing for the better. But the hateful gaze he passed to me before leaving called me back to my senses, and right there I realized that my imaginations were probably a step faster than what reality actually was.

The pain I felt that he sent me away after taking me to the brim of my emotions the other night gave me more reasons why I deserved to be punished for even thinking that Hardin could become a better person.

"My lady, you might give yourself a cut if you keep on thinking," A maid called out, drawing me to the realization that I was with a blade as I tried carving the edges of the wood craft I was making.

Since my wolf was not out, which denied me of one thing that every wolf did for pleasure, which is running through the woods, I decided to do something else. Making crafts from woods.

Mom had tried using several skills to distract my mind while growing up like playing the violin and many others, but none seemed to stick. I always ended up being the Jack of all of the trades and master of none.

Wood craft was one that I suddenly began to develop interest in, and I hoped that it was going to stick.

"Thank you," I smiled at her, then took my attention back to the craft.