My Jealous Alpha Stepbrother
Chapter 63

Misha

I follow Kade deeper into the garden in search of his daughter. We are about to tell her the news: I’m a pathetic wimp that needs her protection despite being a year older.

It sucks…

To be honest, I don’t want Josie to be my bodyguard, but I would never tell my parents that. I know they are doing this for me. They want to keep me safe, but Josie is very immature compared to me.

Unlike me, my childhood friend isn’t a vampire hybrid. It means she doesn’t mature as quickly, which is part of the problem because I know she will humiliate me. I can feel it in my skin and bones.

Josie is super hyped and happy about being more powerful than me, and it’s kind of making me hate her…

“Josephine!” Kade shouts with his fingers curled around his mouth. He sounds excited, probably because he replaces it hilarious his daughter is stronger than me. “Where are you? Come out! Misha is here!”

I look around the scene.

There are green, lush trees everywhere, but since I haven’t woken up as a werewolf, I can’t scent Josie. I hear something rustling, though, and soon, a growl comes from behind a great oak tree.

I turn in the direction of the sound and freeze in my tracks.

A large red-colored lycan is focusing its purple eyes on me—Josie. Her hair is red in her human form, and her fur has the same color. It’s fiery red, like autumn leaves. Beautiful. She looks like a mixture between a fox and a wolf due to her colors.

But even though she is stunning to behold, I’m not excited to see her, especially since I know I will be tackled by the enormous creature. It’s her hobby to wrestle me.

“There you are!” Kade sounds thrilled to see his daughter, but I’m horrified because I know she will pounce on me. “Look who is here, Josephine! Its Misha! Your new client!”

Josie focuses her eyes on me, and her nostrils flare in satisfaction at hearing I’ve turned into her client. But it doesn’t make me feel safe because the enemy right now is Josie.

She loves tackling me to the ground, and a cold shiver races down my spine when I see her wolfish smirk.

Should I run? No. It would serve no purpose. Josie is faster than me, and I gulp before she growls and attacks me with open arms. It only takes three seconds before I’m down on my back!

“Graaaff!” Josie barks.

“No!” I shout as I fall down onto my back. “Stop!”

Ignoring me, Josie licks me in the face, and I howl and try to get the large lycan off me.

“No, stop that! Get off me! I don’t want your tongue in my face! Josie, stop! That’s so disgusting!”

The lycan doesn’t listen to me. Josie continues to lick me in the face, dragging that tongue from my chin up to my forehead. It’s embarrassing. I’m a man—I shouldn’t be defeated by a girl!

“Josie…” I push at her chest, but she doesn’t even budge. I’m not taller than five foot one, and she is enormous, at least eight feet of lycan. I can’t make her budge. “Josie… it’s not funny… get off me… please…”

Josie still isn’t listening. To make matters worse, Kade is laughing now, massively amused.

“She is just playing with you. Let her have her fun!”

Let her have her fun?

I’m close to tears. Frustration is running loose in my veins, and Josie won’t stop licking me in the face. It’s humiliating, and my face is burning.

First, I get bullied by Asher and his friends at school. Then the pack doesn’t respect me. My parents think I’m weak. And now my bodyguard is this respectless ten-year-old girl!

Tears spill from my eyes, and that’s when Kade stops laughing and finally realizes something is wrong.

“Hey, Josephine. I think Misha has had enough. Why don’t you let him go? I think he is crying.”

Josie freezes up to tilt her head at me. Once she sees the tears in my eyes, something resembling regret flashes over her face. I can also see actual concern, but it doesn’t matter!

I won’t listen to Josie or forgive her. I’m so done with her! I don’t care what apology she gives me—she always does this and treats me like a child! I f*****g hate her!

“Misha…” Josie has shape-shifted back into a human and immediately gets off me with worried eyes. “Are you sad? I was only playing around. I thought you would replace it funny! I’m sorry!”

“Funny?!” I exclaim. “Are you f*****g stupid?! You always tackle me to the ground, and I’ve told you a hundred times I don’t think it’s funny! Yet you keep doing it again and again!”

Josie winces, and I hear Kade growl. “That’s not very nice, Misha! You shouldn’t call her stupid!”

“I don’t f*****g care!” I yell back at him, and when both Kade and Josie are stunned, I frown and set off for the woods. “I need to be alone. Don’t follow me!”

I storm off into the forest, and luckily, I’m not followed by Kade or his stupid daughter. I know they mean no harm, but it’s so annoying! I hate being the runt of the pack! I’m the son of the alpha, and I’m so miserable because everyone keeps treating me like I’m fragile!

Tears gather in my eyes. I’m sad, and I don’t know where to go. If I replace my mom, she will make me apologize to Josie, and I don’t want to do that… I know I shouldn’t have called her stupid, but she keeps tackling me to the ground! It’s not funny!

I continue deeper into the woods in the direction away from the mansion and the city. I shouldn’t be out here. Our territory ends ahead, but I don’t want to go home. I can’t breathe there!

More tears run down my face, and my thoughts are all over the place as I run further into the woods.

I think about Asher and how his brothers beat me every day at school and then how I try to hide it from my parents because I don’t want them to worry. I then think about Josie, my only friend, and how… how disrespectful she is.

Does Josie even like me? Why would she treat a friend like trash? It hurts my feelings. And then my pack, who all think I’m a burden, are probably right. How could I possibly become their alpha like this?

I’m too weak to protect anyone.

My eyes widen as I realize something. My mom is pregnant again, with girls, but… maybe if I left, she could give birth to a new son? Or maybe one of my sisters could become the alpha. All I need is to disappear, and they can take over for me.

I lift my eyes to a path that leads deeper into the woods, and then I make up my mind: I will run away and never come back. It will be for the best because I’m just a burden to everyone…

Maybe they will even celebrate that I’m gone?