Bullied By My Alpha Stepbrother novel Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Hardin's POV

One of the advantages of the fact that my father had built his mansion in the woods, was the expanse of land that we were surrounded by. It was easy to shift and run in the woods. It was also easy to get some exercise in it, if you wanted to do it outside and if there was one things wolves hated, it was feeling claustrophobic.

I had just finished running and I stood in the clearing behind our house where I had set two goal posts and lined the field with chalk.

We had a lacrosse game coming up soon against the neighboring town and as the captain, it would be a damn shame to be out of form and lose the game when we had managed to retain our winning streaks since the season started.

As I removed my shirt and threw it on the grass, I picked up the lacrosse stick and ball and stood in the center of the field that I had created and demarcated, ready to train when my mind went to Jasmine.

With the way she had looked at me when our parents had returned from their trip last weekend, I was certain that she was at her breaking point with all that I had done to her and was ready to tell on me. Well, I was ready to deny any and all of her allegations.

But this morning, she hadn't said a single word at breakfast and said she was skipping school. I had decided to do the same because I could, and I felt like also.

But she had given me a weird look that made me uncomfortable.

Who was she to look at me like that?

With my mind wandering about Jasmine, the ball missed the net and I groaned.

I needed to stop thinking about my stepsister and just focus. I blamed her for it, slithering into my thoughts like the little snake that she was.

I refused to believe the shocked look on her face anytime I touched her, like she had no idea what I was doing or had never experienced it before. She was lying to try to get me to stop and I had already made up my mind about torturing her. Since Jasmine and her mother were going to continue staying in the house, then they left me with no choice. It didn't matter whether she cried her eyes out. I needed to remind myself that she was not the victim here.

The ball missed the net again and I frowned, about to head to where it had dropped so that I could try again when my phone rang in my pocket.

Frowning, I saw that it was Alex and was about to ignore because it was probably to ask why I was not in school today. But just as I was about to pocket my phone, it rang again and this time it was Sandro.

Sandro never called me except it was important, he always texted instead.

Swiping to the right, I placed the phone against my ear.

"What's going on?" I said immediately and when he sighed, I knew it would be nothing good.

"You need to check social media bro. There's an anonymous post about you and Jasmine. About her trying to seduce you and shit. Where have you been? I've sent you dozens of messages immediately it came out. It's trending everywhere." Sandro said in a rush and my face paled in shock, my mouth wide open as I tried to digest what he just said.

"Are you still there, bro?" Sandro asked and I realized that in my surprise, I had remained silent.

"Yeah, yeah. Thanks. I'll check it out now." I answered and immediately I hung up, I started to scroll through social media.

True to Sandro's words, the news was everywhere. It had started as an anonymous post on our school's social media website and now it was trending everywhere.

When Sandro had said the news was about me and Jasmine, for a second I had worried that she was the one who had posted something. But this?

I could never have expected it. This was not only false, but it was worded in such a way that had set Jasmine for the worst of trolling.