Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother novel Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Still a day earlier

Hardin's POV

If there was a motto that I lived by that I was sure was one of the reasons why I had made a name for myself in this school, it was the act first, talk later movement.

I saw the way everyone else minded their business almost immediately I looked at them with raised eyebrows as I dragged the boy that I had just punched out of the cafeteria. I knew that once I left the cafeteria, there would be a lot of mumblings and speculations about why I had punched him and was now taking him out of the cafeteria to finish the job. And if I was someone who cared about what people said, then maybe it would have bothered me but I didn't.

Something at the back of my mind reminded me that this was not an action that I should have carried out, especially because they were yet to even decide if I was to keep my title as captain of the team or give it to that fake prince charming, Lorenzo. And from the looks of it, after this scene, I was sure that he would report it. Anything to make sure that I lost. But I still didn't care as much as I should.

Nothing seemed to even make me want to stop myself from dealing with this guy, especially because he deserved it.

Dragging him out to the empty lacrosse field since everyone else was inside by this time, I pushed him and let go of the back of his neck, watching as he fell to the ground and turned around to look at me in fear.

"I'm so sorry, Hardin. I didn't do anything, I swear" The boy muttered shakily and if I hadn't overheard him, I would have believed that it was not possible for him to do a single thing that was bad.

He looked like the kind of kid that would get called the nice guy by others only to end up stabbing people in the back. He looked like Lorenzo did. Perhaps that was why his plea made me angrier and I growled, making him flinch.

"You didn't do anything, right?" I drawled and when he nodded, I grinned even though anyone who saw me would know that it was far from a smile.

He didn't do anything, actually. It didn't even count that he did something, since the reason why I had brought him out was because I overheard everything he was saying to his friends.

Of course he would not think that the reason why I brought him out was because I had overheard him openly lusting after Jasmine and telling his friends that he was going to do everything in his power to make sure that he fucked her.

Thanks to supernatural hearing, his words had floated over to me like he was sitting right beside me when he said them and when I had looked at his face, there was so much pride and determination on his face that he was trying to fake innocence on right now, like he was not capable of hurting a fly. And people like him, pretenders were the worst type of assholes.

Jasmine thought I was an evil bastard but I didn't pretend to be a nice guy like Lorenzo. I didn't pretend like this guy.

"What's your name?"

"Ben." He stuttered and I nodded, noting it down at the back of my mind.

"What year?"

"Junior year" he answered and I nodded again.

Bending down to grab his jaw, I held his gaze.

"Listen to me carefully, young man. Because I'm only going to say this once."

"I'll do whatever you want, Hardin, just say the word."

"You won't have much choice anyways. You will go back to your little friends and tell them that everything you said about Jasmine was disrespectful and you will make sure that neither you or your friends even walk in the same direction whenever you see her. You will stay as far away from her as possible, do I make myself clear?"

He nodded, his eyes filling with tears as I grabbed his arm. Pathetic. Utterly pathetic.

I was contemplating what would be the best punishment for him when Sandro called my name and I released my grip on Ben, turning around to look at him.

"What's up? I have news." Sandro said, looking at Ben before pulling me to a corner.

Frowning, I wondered what bad news it was, because I knew that it was only a matter of time before someone reported the scene that I had created in the cafeteria to the school, especially because everyone knew I was still on probation to be captain.

"Give me the bad news fast. I have things to do."