Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother novel Chapter 81

Chapter 77

Jasmine

Out of the corner of my eye, I only caught wisps of dissipating smoke, when out of nowhere a massive caramel blur moving at a high speed slammed into the oncoming beast to send it crashing backwards to the trees.

A positively huge wolf covered in familiar brown colored fur prowled around in the middle of the clearing. I did a double take at this newcomer and only then had I recognized it was Hardin.

They circled each other for several moments before leaping at once. Possessing greater body mass in his current form, Lorenzo pushed the brown wolf backwards. But in a show of skill that convinced me that it was definitely Hardin, the brown wolf fell on its back and kicked the black one over it.

Rolling onto his feet, he dashed after the beast, biting and clawing at everywhere he found entry until Lorenzo threw out an attack that made Hardin retreat.

I continued watching in terror as Lorenzo lunged at him to grab his head. Slinking under the beast's large arms, Hardin was able to get behind it to deliver a deadly slash of his long claws at the back of Lorenzo's wolf's knee. When it went down, he leapt onto its back and opened his mouth to bite into its neck but Lorenzo held his head and flung him away.

Hardin transitioned from an uncontrollable tumble to a perfect recovery roll and jumped right back at the beast. He kept up with this method of attack, picking apart Lorenzo's wolf with small scratches and bites, never once giving it breathing space.

For a moment I was starting to feel confident in Hardin's capabilities, but in the next moment my confidence had completely vanished.

When it became too much for Lorenzo to bear, he pushed himself out of Hardin's path and slammed his hands together. A vertical slash of compressed air made its way towards the brown wolf at incredible speed. The lupine creature suddenly vanished from its spot, and was sent flying and crashing into the ground. Then, Hardin, who was already badly wounded, turned back to his human form and Lorenzo followed suit.

Reflexly, I pulled out of the elder’s grip, and rushed closer to where they were.

Just as I almost crouched down to Hardin’s level, Lorenzo’s words that followed left me in a state of shock.

“See who wanted to stop me,” He mentioned, and began chuckling really loud.

It was then that I noticed that Lorenzo was not even alone, but some men, cladded in black with the symbol that I had seen on my kidnapper’s, boldly drawn on their faces, surrounded us.

Murmurs and chatterings had already filled the open space, as everyone wondered how the tables had suddenly turned. We were now at the mercy of Lorenzo and his men, while Hardin winced in pain on the floor.

“How can you stop me when you couldn’t even save your mother and her sister?” Lorenzo said and forced a chuckle out of his enraged self, “remember? That competition we had in school some years back, you cheated your way through the competition and stole my glory and my shine. And it was that day that I swore that I will take everything that was important to you and trust me, it was beautiful seeing the pain on your face after she passed.”

I gasped, mom gasped, dad and Alpha Hills too. We all knew that Lisa had killed Camila, she had confessed to that before taking her life in her cell, was that all Lorenzo’s doing?

“Lorenzo!!!” Hardin groaned in pain, but before he could stand, Lorenzo punched him at his groin.

There, the only thing that I felt towards Lorenzo was disgust. At that point, he felt like a devilish beast to me and seeing him made my blood boil.

“What are you saying, Lorenzo? The poison?”

“Yes… but I swear, I am really sorry, Jasmine. All of it was just for my revenge. Foolish Lisa was only a pun for me, but she got hold of the poison and tried killing your mom, which was why I made sure to give you the antidote.”

Now, everything made sense. All of it. How Lisa got hold of the poison, and how Lorenzo had the antidote readily available for an illness that doctors could not treat. It all made sense.

I stood there, with my face completely pale.

“I am really sorry, Jasmine.” He repeated and pulled me in for a hug.

And that was when I did all I could at that moment. With no emotions left inside of me, I pulled the needle into Lorenzo’s arms.

“What did you just do?” Lorenzo voiced out immediately, with his right palm pressed tightly against his left arm.

Yes, it did make me feel wicked, but I had given Lorenzo a taste of his own tea. I had just injected the poison into him.

While he and Hardin fought, I had noticed his continuous struggle to inject some kind of fluid into Hardin, which Hardin was able to push away with a punch, but I was not aware of what it was. Up until Lorenzo’s revelation. He probably thought that he had won even before the battle could be over. And that was how I picked it up, while rushing to save Hardin.

Still struggling to stay calm, Lorenzo tried rushing towards me this time, but to my surprise, Hardin was up on his feet and had punched Lorenzo on his face.

I was fidgeting, I had no idea that Lorenzo was that vicious.

The men that were cladded in back rushed towards Hardin and tried attacking him. Thankfully, Dad had managed to mind link his beta, which got him rushing to the field we were in, with some other warriors.

“You killed my mother!” I heard Hardin’s growl loud and clear which made me turn to where he was.

“You deserved it.” Lorenzo countered, struggling to raise himself up.

From Hardin’s voice, I could feel the different emotions that ran through. He was weak, but winning the race was what he wanted to do at that point. For him. For me.For our baby. For us.

With the many series of events that were unfolding, Lorenzo managed to pull out a knife which we were not aware that he was with, and my eyes widened in school. Immediately he tried aiming at Hardin’s chest, Hardin managed to dodge, and at the same time, took the knife away from Lorenzo’s hands by bending it.

Lorenzo had flawed the rules of the game, so it was no longer a game. It was now a battle of the fittest.

The only thing that managed to keep me sane, was my wolf’s constant assurance that everything would be fine. She was really confident which should not be the case, considering that our mate was probably in trouble.

My mind had wandered away, and I had not been able to follow up with the many events happening around me. Dad, his Beta, Sandro and Alex, and the other warriors fighting off Lorenzo’s men.

Everything felt like it was not happening.

And when I heard Lorenzo whimper in pain, still filled with fear, my eyes rushed back to Hardin.

The knife was in his hand, and he had stabbed Lorenzo in his chest.

With the intensity of Lorenzo’s cry, I knew the knife was poisoned. To think that he wanted to stab Hardin with it, caused chills to run through my spine.

The warriors had managed to defeat Lorenzo’s men, and from a distance, Alpha Hills stood, saying nothing. But disappointment was written loud and clear on his face.

The warriors grabbed hold of Hardin and pulled him away from Lorenzo who was still struggling to survive. Sadly, it was almost impossible as he had fallen into his own trap.

As Lorenzo was taken away, the warriors let go of Hardin, and he dropped weakly to the ground. I saw his lips quiver as his shoulders shook, a stray tear rolled down his eyes before he hugged his legs and buried his face inside.

The pain of learning that his mom had not died the way we had thought was unbearable, especially for him, I could see it when he looked up at me. All of the emotions he had buried seemed to completely awaken.

“He killed my mother, for a mistake that he could handle with me. My mother is no longer here for very petty reasons.” Hardin’s pain did not seem to end.

I shook my head as I ran down to him, I didn’t want to see him that way and I didn’t need him hating himself for everything that had happened in the past. I dropped myself to the ground next to him and pulled him toward me, hugging him as tight as I could before taking his face in my hands as I wiped his tears.

“It’s not your fault, Hardin. I hope you will be fine soon.”

And when he raised his face to me. “I am sorry, Jasmine. I am really sorry for everything. For being a jerk and not caring about your emotions,” was the first thing that left his mouth.

“No, Hardin,” I interrupted immediately, “you don’t need to keep apologizing, I have forgiven you, Hardin. All that happened is now in the past, I have forgiven you because I love you, Hardin, I love you and I don’t want you to be this way.”