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.

moved faster in my life, packing up my things and dashing

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

faces. Almost as though they had done something.

classroom door, blood draining out of my face

holding her ribs and I watched how she trembled

“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

face. She looks so childlike in that instance, so

Why, she barely weighs anything at all, I notice absently

nurse comes running and stops as she stares at me and Winter.

we go into the nurse’s room. “Put her on the

I carefully place Winter down, gently, not wanting to hurt her. She

nurse comes up beside me and gasps as she takes in Winter’s condition, “What happened” she exclaimed, and I give a helpless

grimly, “but I intend to

I raise my eyebrows at her, refusing

as the nurse slowly peels her shirt and jumper up, exposing her body. I could cry at the amount of injuries and bruises on her body. The nurse blinks

all new” I growl and the nurse

are older than others” she agrees, “as though she’s been beaten a few times. The poor

she cries and the

she says, and Winter just nods, a tear trickling down her pale cheek.

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

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