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 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 coming out of the

they had done something. When they see

the classroom door, blood draining out of my face as I see

holding her ribs and I watched how she

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 two as I stare at

her bruised face. She looks so childlike in that instance, so fragile, and I quietly pick her

at all, I notice absently as I maneovre her carefully out of the

at me and Winter. I

like dead weights as we go into

gently, not

gasps as she takes in Winter’s condition, “What happened” she exclaimed, and

say grimly, “but I intend to find

she says slowly, and I raise my eyebrows at her, refusing to move and she sighs, unable to order an

and jumper up, exposing her body. I could cry at the amount of injuries

all new” I growl

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.

she cries and the nurse profusely

so sorry” she says, and Winter just nods, a tear trickling down her pale cheek. Without thinking, I wiped it away, trailing my finger

it hurts”, the nurse asks, and Winter points to her ribs, looking exhausted and

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