Chapter 12
Johnathon’s POV
T head back to my next class, listening to my wolf’s growls and protests, pushing them aside. But something
doesn’t feel right to me. Why did she look so defeated back there, as though she’d been expecting to be rejected?
Mates generally stayed together and I felt a pang as I remembered the sad look in her eyes. She’d looked so broken
and I had helped make her that way.
Class seemed to take forever and, to be honest, I had no clue what subject I was currently in, let alone did I care.
All I could think about was her and the niggling feeling in my gut. Something was wrong, I could feel it and my wolf
could sense it. The bell couldn’t ring fast enough for me and, to my dismay, I was held back by the teacher, who had a serious look on his face.
“Johnathon, I understand you’re the alpha, but that doesn’t mean not paying attention in class” he said gravely,
and I glower at him, causing him to take a step back. My eyes turn pitch black in warning and he babbles something
at me and then let’s me go.
in my life, packing up my things and dashing out the door. I’ll just look in
wolf says nothing, instead telling me to run. I remember the last place I’d seen her and make a run to her classroom, surprised to see a crowd of cheerleaders
though they had done something. When
the classroom door, blood draining out of my face
her ribs and I watched how she trembled as she got to her feet. I
down again in front of me as I roared “Somebody get a doctor here now” at the top of my Alpha tone, sending students and teachers scurrying to do just that. I
in that instance, so fragile, and I
anything at all, I notice absently as
and stops as she stares at me and
feeling like dead weights as we go into the nurse’s room. “Put her on the bed” the
carefully place Winter down, gently, not wanting to hurt her. She still
takes in Winter’s condition,
I say grimly, “but I
says slowly, and I raise my eyebrows at her,
body. I could cry at the amount of injuries and bruises on her body. The nurse blinks back
all new” I growl and the
these are older than others” she agrees, “as though she’s been beaten a few times. The poor girl, I had no idea” she said, shaking her head.
and the nurse
just nods, a tear trickling down her pale cheek. Without thinking, I wiped it away, trailing my finger down her
examine you. Can you tell me where it hurts”, the nurse asks, and Winter points to her ribs,
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