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.
faster in my life, packing up my things and dashing
home. I say to myself and my 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
bitchy faces. Almost as though they had done something. When they see me they
door, blood draining out of my face as
holding her ribs and I watched how she trembled as she
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 kneel in front of Winter and push back the hair covering her face, my heart breaking in
so childlike in that instance, so fragile, and I
she barely weighs anything at all, I notice absently as I
me and Winter. I growl at her and
my legs feeling like dead weights as we go into the nurse’s room. “Put her on the bed”
I carefully place Winter down, gently, not wanting to hurt her. She still
up beside me and gasps as she takes in Winter’s condition, “What happened” she
say grimly, “but I intend to
she says slowly, and I raise my eyebrows at her, refusing to move and
I could cry at the amount of injuries and bruises on her body. The nurse
all new” I growl and the
though she’s been beaten a few times. The poor girl, I had no idea” she said, shaking her head.
and the nurse
so sorry” she says, and Winter just nods, a tear trickling down her pale cheek. Without thinking, I wiped
the
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