Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother novel Chapter 68

Chapter 68

Jasmine

It felt like the whole world had collapsed on me after hearing Hardin say those words. My eyes widened in horror and when I looked at my mother, she looked like she could not even believe what she had just heard.

Well, that made the two of us.

A slut. Hardin had just called me a slut right in front of my mother and it felt like every moment that I had actually thought there was something there, that he was more than this bully, this asshole, that he was just someone that was struggling with his pain and needed to be heard, it felt like those moments were a lie.

This was the real Hardin. This was who he was. This was what he was capable of. He was nothing but a dick.

"What are you talking about, Hardin?" She asked, her voice calm but shaky as she struggled to grasp the words that had been used to describe me.

Hardin merely looked at me, his face filled with disgust and stormed upstairs as fast as he could and I heard the door to his bedroom slam shut.

My mother turned to look at me, her eyes filled with so many questions.

"What is he talking about, munchkin? What does he mean by that?" She asked gently and it was all I could do to not start crying.

Tears trickled down my eyes and when I saw her trying to close the distance between us, I shook my head and ran up the stairs, locking the door to my room and sitting on the floor beside my bed as the first sob burst out of my mouth.

Lost. I was so lost. How could this be happening to me? What was my offense? What was my sin? How was I going to even explain to my mother that I was pregnant and that contrary to what Hardin believed, the person responsible was him, not a random person because I had never even kissed anyone else that was not him.

How would I begin to explain that my stepbrother was the father of my unborn child?

It would break my mother's heart. I couldn't tell her and now that the one person that I had hoped to tell wanted nothing to do with me, I was fucked.

"Jasmine?" I heard my mother say as she knocked gently on the door and I quickly tried to reduce my sobs so that she would not be even more worried.

"Mum, please not right now." I answered and when I didn't hear anything, I thought she was no longer at the door. I thought she had gone but then I heard her gentle voice again.

"Jasmine, I don't know what happened between you and Hardin but please you can talk to me. I know that he might have said those hurtful things but I'm sure they are not true, sweetie. He was probably speaking from a place of pain and I'm sorry that you had to hear that."

My mother was such a sweet soul. I knew that other mothers would have asked what Hardin meant, but look at her believing that he was only being mean. She trusted me with everything she had and yet I had gone and disappointed her. No matter how much I needed a hug from her right now, I could not open the door.

I could not tell her the truth.

And so, I stayed quiet instead of answering her, walking to sit by the door.

"Know that it is still you and me against the world, my love and I'll be here to talk about anything, alright?" She whispered and then I heard her steps receding.

I didn't know how long I sat on the ground but my phone started ringing and when I looked at it, it was from Nadia.

I was about to turn off the phone and throw it somewhere when a message popped up.

“If you turn off your phone, I'm going to show up at your house. Pick up, Jasmine.”

Knowing that she would do exactly as she had said she would if I didn't pick up, I answered the phone on the next ring.