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.
life, packing up my things and dashing out the door. I’ll just
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
they had done something.
door, blood draining out of my face as
been beaten, holding her ribs and I watched how she trembled as she got to her feet. I
moved quicker, reacted, because before I could do anything she fell 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
her bruised face. She looks so childlike in that instance, so fragile, and I quietly pick her up and cradle
my chest. Why, she barely weighs anything at all, I notice absently as I maneovre her carefully out
she stares at me and Winter. I growl at
dead weights as we go into the
Winter down, gently, not wanting to hurt
and gasps as she takes in Winter’s condition, “What happened” she exclaimed, and I
say grimly, “but I intend to find
nurse hesitates. “I need to look her over” she says slowly, and I raise my eyebrows at her, refusing to move and she sighs, unable
body. I could cry
all new” I growl
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
tear trickling down her pale cheek. Without thinking, I wiped it away, trailing my finger
the nurse asks, and Winter points to her ribs,
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