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.