The Alpha's Rejected Silent Mate

Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Damien POV

“I know that it seems a long time away boys, but you really do have to think about your future” the headmaster

is saying in that annoying nasal voice of his. I fight the urge to roll my eyes, wanting nothing more than to poke my

tongue out at him. Johnathon is sitting beside me, looking just as frustrated, but the headmaster is the one person can’t go against without being suspended or expelled.

Who gives a damn about the future, I think a bit bitterly. Winter’s had been ruined and it had been one of my

friends’ who’d done it to her. I wasn’t stupid. She tried to hide it from me but I knew she was having nightmares

every night. I heard her muffled gasps when she woke up. I still stayed outside her room every night and I knew she was annoyed by it. I guess I’ve gone from being a disinterested older brother to an overprotective one in a short

amount of time. Who would have thought it?

“You need to think about college and where you are going. What grades are you going to need?” God he was rambling on and on. Was he ever going to shut up? How much longer was going to have to sit here and listen to him,

for heaven’s sake.

“Johnathon, have you chosen a college yet?”

“No” Johnathon answers sullenly and we share a look, one that sympathizes with the other. It’s clear neither of us is particularly thrilled to be sitting in the headmaster’s office.

“Damien, what about you?”

“I’m not going to college, I need to get a job”, I answer politely and the headmaster seemed confused by my

answer.

up with a bright future”, he tells me sternly and I shrug,

rude.

my head” I commented dryly. Ha, take

disappeared” he says, trying

care of myself and Winter” I say carelessly, and he looks

was that about?

your

come to the surface. “I don’t know. Sometimes she seems to be fine and dealing with everything and then other times not so much”, I admit, hating myself for showing weakness in front of

on me.

had a chance to tell him. Alright, I did, but I’d held back from telling him, because I didn’t feel like it was any of his business once

Alpha that directly

the only ones who’d hoped that

myself, “if you both decide on a college,

or your sister need help, then

the words”, he adds, and I stare at him, absolutely incredulous. Did

let social services take my sister from me? Over my dead

and he blinks at me,

the headmaster says pleasantly, looking at the clock. The old

a bloody hour with his drivelling. I needed to get the hell out of

the same. We leave the study in a rush, breathing in fresh air in relief. The office had

away with anything you want. Like I

class is, but I’m not shocked to find

me on the way to

huff and I cast him a sidelong

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