Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother novel Chapter 47

Chapter 48 - Jasmine

Jasmine

"What do you think you're doing Lorenzo?" I asked again, and he seemed genuinely confused by my reaction. He seemed to be confused, and had made to kiss me again. But my second rejection seemed to have made things a bit clearer for him.

"Get away from me" I yelled as I pulled away from his touch.

"Get away from you? I thought you wanted this?" Lorenzo asked. He seemed to have misread our friendship. I did like him, but clearly not in the way he had in his mind.

"Wanted this? Is this what the whole friendship was about?"

"You are getting everything wrong, Jasmine," Lorenzo voiced out, and tried touching my cheeks again.

"Don't you dare," I said to Lorenzo, but it did feel like my words had little effects on him.

At that moment, I began to regret all the decisions I had taken that day.

If only I had just stayed away from Lorenzo as Hardin always warned? Or maybe, if I had gone home with Nadia or even Hardin?

I had been trying all I could to escape Hardin's harrassments, but I could swear that I did feel more comfortable compared to having Lorenzo kiss me.

"Can you just take me back home, Lorenzo? I mean, so we keep this friendship and act like all of this did not happen, because I'm clearly disappointed in you."

At my words, his face had contorted into a frown, and I got worried thinking that I had annoyed him. But it was not the case, his next statement made it clear.

"You are disappointed in me? Because I tried to kiss you? Did you not know all along that I have been interested in you this way?"

From his reply, I began to wonder if I actually knew who Lorenzo was.

"I think I know now." He said, and I immediately turned my gaze to him wondering what he knew.

"It's all because of Hardin!"

"Hardin now? You are now bringing Hardin into this?"

"Yes! He always feeds you with lies and rubbish about me. He tells you to stay away from me, and you blindly listen. Even with all the unimaginable things that I have seen him do to you. Is there anything about the both of you that I don't know, Jasmine?"

I did not even know what to feel at that point. I shook my head, and made to open the car door to leave before Lorenzo stopped me.

"Don't you dare come close to me!" I rebuffed before stepping out of the vehicle and walking away. Lorenzo stepped down too, and had begun chasing after me. But I kept yelling at him to stay back.

My anger filled yells seemed to have attracted attention towards us, because a car had pulled up beside me and had asked of the situation. I didn't reply the stranger, but he didn't seem like he was going to leave me alone, and neither did Lorenzo.

"If you want to get away from him I can give you a ride back to town" The stranger offered. On a normal day I wouldn't even think about entering this stranger's car. But Lorenzo was advancing towards me fast, and I wanted to be as far away as possible from him at the moment.

I had reluctantly entered the strangers vehicle, and he had zoomed off in the same second.

"Thank you." I appreciated his kindness.

"Can you drop me a couple meters from here. I can get back on my own." I only wanted to get away from Lorenzo, and now that I had managed to do so, I wanted to be out of this stranger's vehicle.

My words were ignored, and the car had immediately increased in speed.

"Excuse me?" I tried to get the driver's attention, but his reply told me immediately that it was a kidnap.

"Shut up and sit back down!" The stranger yelled back at me. Instinctively, I had pulled out my cellphone and had dialed the first number I saw, it was Lorenzo's.

I had barely spoken a word, when my phone was snatched forcefully from my hand. My attempt to call for help had fetched me a slap, and curses from the driver who proceeded to smash my phone.

I was genuinely scared, but upon staring backwards from the window, I had caught sight of Lorenzo's car speeding towards us. He probably would have attacked the stranger from behind, but he didn't want to risk us crashing to our death.

The stranger seemed to have noticed the approaching vehicle and had stepped harder on the acceleration pedal. However Lorenzo's car was faster, and it wasn't long before it caught up and intercepted ours.

Swiftly running out of the car, I raced towards Lorenzo, but the stranger was faster and pulled me backwards.