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 out the door. I’ll just look in on

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

though they had done something. When they see me

open the classroom door, blood draining out of my face as

clearly been beaten, holding her ribs and I watched how she trembled as she got to her feet.

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

so childlike in that instance, so fragile, and

weighs anything at all, I notice absently as

she stares at me and Winter. I growl at her and she blinks.

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

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

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

say grimly, “but I intend to find

to look her over” she says slowly, and I raise my eyebrows at her, refusing to

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

I growl

of 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

just nods, a tear trickling down her pale cheek. Without thinking, I wiped it away, trailing my finger

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

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