Chapter 17Jasmine's POVIf I wasn't so scared of the fact that Hardin's eyes were glowing and his fangs were out in what he honestly believed was a smile, then I would have been fascinated by how easy it came for him.It was no secret that for some reason, I was not capable of turning into my wolf. The highest I could summon were my claws and even that was so laughable to do when I knew that I could not transform so I didn't even bother to do that.Nadia had always tried her possible best to not talk about shifting or anything about her werewolf in front of me even though I had told her several times that she could. I guessed that she was doing me a favour.Because now, as Hardin's face changed and went back to normal with so much ease, I wanted to ask him to do it again so I could watch and remember that the chances that I would ever be able to do that were zero to none."I will not repeat myself, Jasmine." He growled and I blinked, walking back to where he was sitting and lowering
Chapter 18Jasmine's POVLooking away from my phone after I read the message, I saw that Hardin's glare was on me, his expression tortured as if he was expecting me to defend myself or argue with his horrid accusations.He looked like he had been expecting a verbal response from me after he had all but called me and my mother names and informed us that he had reported to his aunt.Well, I guessed he really hated us that much and before today, I knew that I would have responded immediately, but now that I felt some sort of empathy towards what he might be going through and the changes that he had no choice but to accept immediately, my desire to argue with him had waned considerably.My phone buzzed again and when I saw that it was my mother, I picked it up and answered, still keeping my eyes trained on Hardin's whose face had hardened.I knew that with his supernatural hearing, he would hear everything that the other person on the other end of thephone was saying with premium ease an
Chapter 19Jasmine's POVThe entire dinner table was tense and even when Hardin ate with us, things were never as silent or as tense as this and I knew the reason. I was sure everyone on this table including Lisa knew the reason why.It was because Lisa Morales was here.I wondered how my mother was feeling, seeing the identical twin of Russo's first love and mother of his child sitting across from her beside Hardin, her smile bright and carefree as if she did not have a bother in the world because I knew that it worried me to look at her.For all intents and purposes, Lily was the template from which Hardin was cast. He might have inherited his father's dark hair but those blue eyes that turned glassy or looked like the sky when they weren't darkening in rage, had come from Lily, his mother. And Lisa had those exact glassy blue eyes.And that smirk when they raised the side of their mouths or bit their lips were also the same.I wondered how Hardin was handling seeing someone that lo
Chapter 20Jasmine's POV"Oh come on, what are you saying? So you're really not going to attend Brent and Ash's birthday party tonight? They literally gave you a card." Nadia yelled and I had to remove my phone from my ears so that she would not make me go deaf. Switching the call to video, I dropped it on my bed."And I received flowers and gifts from unknown people today. So what?" I asked my best friend as I slumped on my bed beside my phone, my eyes on the door as if I was waiting for Hardin to barge in.He hadn't done anything since that night where he had left to argue with his father and had returned to sit beside my bed. I was beginning to wonder why instead of celebrating, I was worried about the fact that he had not threatened me in a while or tried to touch me.Did he have any new pranks up his sleeve and was just waiting for the right time or had the arrival of his aunt made him take a break from tormenting me?After that disaster of a dinner where Lisa had all but reveale
Chapter 21Jasmine's POVI gasped from the shock when his lips crashed against mine, his hand pulling me roughly towards his body. I held on to his shirt, trying to move away from him, my mind trying to remind me that it was Hardin and that this was a bad decision even though my body betrayed me.When he released me, he grabbed my chin and his eyes glowed as he growled deeply at me and I flinched, wanting to move away from him but his grip was too strong."Let me go, Hardin" I whispered gently, aware that if I came across as rude, he would only seek to keep me here and do something to me."Why? So that you can go back downstairs and play your little game like a slut? Look at that little thing on your body. Is it even a dress?""What's it to you?" I snapped, irritated that he would talk about me this way.He raised his brow and his grip on my chin tightened."Oh, so you've got claws now that you're suddenly popular and little boys like Brent want to fuck you, is that it? Answer me!" H
Chapter 22Hardin's POVI knew that I had a temper. Hell if anyone wanted to describe Hardin Morales in one word, it would be anger. Rage.Perhaps it was because I was the son to an Alpha and would be one myself. It was easy to explain the burning rage that I felt beneath my skin everyday as it pushed me to shift into my wolf form but I knew that many things made me upset also because I was highly irritable. And among the things that topped the list of people and situations that made my blood boil, Jasmine topped the list and I could not even explain why.Sure I hated her and everything that she stood for because of her mother's marriage to my father to the point that I had involved my aunt, Lisa which I still didn't know if it was a good idea, considering that it gave my dad more reason to side with his new family and place me as the villain in his fairytale.But the rage that had clouded my vision when Alex had taken a picture of her in that skimpy little dress sitting beside Brent
Chapter 23Jasmine's POVI woke up before my alarm even sounded, to go to school.It had been that way since Saturday morning when I returned from the cottage with Hardin, no longer a virgin.I had thought that there was something that would change in my face or skin when I finally did what others my age had been doing for a very long time.But instead there was nothing but a hollowness in my chest because I couldn't even be happy about what had happened when the next morning, I had to remind myself that the person that had been my first hated me beyond redemption.And it wasn't like I was head over heels in love with him either like all those novels that I had read made the female lead to be. Hardin made it really hard to like him.He had looked so shocked like it was impossible for me to even be a virgin and had completely shut down on me. The entire drive back, he had not said a word as if I was someone that had ceased to exist the moment he realized that whatever image he had made
Chapter 24Jasmine's POV"Is there a reason why you're staring at Hardin with daggers in your eyes?" Nadia asked me at lunch and even though I shrugged, I hoped that he would look at me and see just how much I was angry at all of the events of the past week.After the incident in the closet where Hardin had showed me just how he would handle me standing up to him and calling him out on all of his bullshit behaviour to my mother, I had thought that it was the worst thing that could happen.And that was until Russo travelled a week ago for a Summit in another town.It should not have been a problem that Russo was leaving for a week.But the problem was that he was not taking my mother with him, which should have also not been a big deal except the fact that thanks to Hardin, his aunt Lisa who had absolutely no respect for my mother had seen it as an ample opportunity to treat my mother like she was the dirt beneath her feet.First, it had been subtle, like stylishly calling her a tramp