The Alpha's Rejected Silent Mate

Chapter 22

I feel bad. I had to leave Winter at home this morning, because I had football practice, well okay, I was staring at the cheerleaders and maybe some of the other girls that cheer for them.

A crappy reason to leave my sister behind right? I should have stayed but surely dad was way too drunk to do anything.

He’d been completely out of it when I left so I thought it was safe. I shake my head. I’ll check later to make sure that she’s made it to school safely. I promised her I’d change and I meant every single word of it.

Theres a niggle feeling in my gut and I don’t even dare wait until lunch like my original plan to find her. Instead I

go to the administration office and get glared at by the secretary. Clearly she doesn’t like me. Like I care, heck the feeling was mutual. I drum my fingers across the desk just to piss her off some more.

“Can I help you” she says snidely and I so badly want to give her the finger but making sure Winter is ok is my first priority. I could always give her the finger when I left.

“I’m wondering what class my sister Winter is in right now. I need to speak to her” | mumble. There’s no need to tell her my last name. I’ve been in this office so many times to see the headmaster that the secretary knows my full name off by heart.

She scowls at me and then slowly, pulls up something from her computer. At least she’s not arguing with me but then maybe she just wants me the hell out of her office.

“Why are you looking for your sister when she called in sick today” the woman snaps, as though I’ve wasted her precious time. I swear she rolled her eyes at me.

“Winter called in sick” | double check. I don’t believe her, Winter has never missed a day of school. Even when she was being bullied relentlessly or sick with a cold, she came to school. Her grades were too important to her.

“Yes she called in sick” the secretary says irritably and I still.

“Did she call or did her father?” I ask in a whisper, my gut churning.

even more

“it matters a lot” and she sighs,

the headmaster” she drawls sarcastically

makes a conscious effort to settle herself back in her chair before she looks up and meets my eyes. My

“Well” I growl.

in sick for Winter, she was too sick to do it

would never do something like that, not even if Winter really was sick and she’d been fine last night when we’d been hanging out. I frown. Something feels dangerously wrong and

say kid because it was the new Alpha boy Johnathon. How ironic that he has the same name as one of my friends

brother?” he asks in a dangerous tone and I

he

going home to look for her” I tell him and his eyes

and I

“Winter’s never missed a day of school in her life, if there’s anything that means

and I give him a nod of thanks, sensing he was coming

I could yell at him later when I found

must be nice to be Alpha and not

couch, a beer bottle dangling from his chubby hand, snores permeating the room. I walk in quietly and motion for Johnathon to follow me, he does but I

nods, looking over at father. “Keep him in your sight” | whisper and slowly tread upstairs, walking straight to Winter’s room. She’s not in there.

father’s even the bathroom and toilet but theres no sign of

her, I know it in my bones and I

a struggle and I’m in no mood to wait for father to wake up. I stomp over to him and smack him upside

bolting upright, his eyes full of scorn as he glares at me. He makes no move to retaliate and it’s then that I see what