The Alpha's Rejected Silent Mate

Winter’s POV

It’s lunchtime and I’m sitting outside, my poor stomach growling as it smells the delicious scent of other students eating their lunch, my head hung low and my blonde hair hiding my face as though people wouldn’t recognize me. I stood out like a sore thumb. It would take a miracle to get through lunchtime without being accosted by one of my bullies.

girl eyeing me with a wicked grin. My heart sinks despite telling myself to get a goddamn grip. It’s none other than Jessica, the most popular girl in school, her long blonde hair gleaming and shiny in the sunlight, her big blue eyes cold and condemning, her skin a nice golden honey tan and her figure slim and clad in a cheerleader’s outfit. She lives to humiliate me and all I can do is look up from my position on the grass and

as I shriek, my hair now dripping of cola as she laughs maniacally, her cheerleader group behind her, giggling behind their hands.It’s cold, sticky and trickles down my clothes as I stand up, letting it drip down my back as I shudder. “It’s an improvement” laughed Jessica,

walks right up and swings, her fist connecting to my jaw as I flinch, pain already shooting upwards as I place a hand there, my cheek still sore from the previous

my eyes, but I was determined to keep them from falling. I haven’t done anything to her, but Jessica’s in love with my brother Damien and tortures

and I work hard so that, eventually, when I do graduate, if I make it until then, I’ll be able to leave this town and my so-called family and study, far away at a college of my choice. I’m determined to get the hell out of this town, no matter what it takes, and become a lawyer. If I keep my grades up like I have been, I might even be able to organize a scholarship. Lord knows there’s no way in hell that my father would even dream of paying for my tuition and, quite frankly, I’ll be glad to leave.