The Alpha's Rejected Silent Mate

Chapter 36

Johnathon POV

I’m not going to lie, I’m fairly concerned about Winter. I mean, she could have at least waited for us to escort her

home for heaven’s sake. As it is, it’s the next morning and I’m impatiently waiting by the gate to see her and that blasted annoying brother Damien of hers. Alright, maybe Damien’s not that bad, but he is still annoying. There are

other students trickling in and lignore the looks, the curiosity on their stupid faces. I only have one person I’m

interested in seeing and that’s Winter. No one else. I ignore the small voice in my head that reminds me I rejected her

and have no business being this protective towards her.

So, when Damien slowly comes trudging through the crowd, I’m puzzled to see he’s all alone, instead of with his

sister Winter. Had he left her at home? All by herself? I feel my anger rising and I shove through everyone, the others scattering out of my way. Good. Damien looks up and I swear he’s been crying, his eyes are all red and puffy, there are dried tear tracks on his cheeks. It’s unnerving to see a young man as tough as him in such a mess. Had something happened to Winter? I began to feel a sense of panic. No don’t let it be that, let it be something else, anything else.

“We need to talk” Damien says in a low voice, and I grabbed his jumper and fairly dragged him into the school

building and into an empty classroom, before releasing him.

“Talk” I snapped, crossing my arms and glowering at him “where the hell is your sister Damien? Where is

Winter?”

He hesitates and my eyes turn pitch black in warning as he gulps and looks away, too frightened to look me in

the eyes. My impatience is mounting.

“She ran away” he finally says and for a minute I stood there in disbelief, unable to comprehend it. He had to be

joking. Winter was one of the most stubborn girls I’ve ever seen. She wouldn’t have just left. I refuse to believe that.

a small part of me thinks that it’s

flinches from the tone of my Alpha voice. He cringes as

than a little

a note” he whispered, “saying that she couldn’t bear to stay here any longer. I guess the bullying

and I feel like throttling him. I knew Winter had been bullied but I’d believed the

put the word out. Had my wishes been disrespected? I’d kill anyone who’d

them” I declared, but

in his distress, “she’s gone, Johnathon, and she’s not coming back. Because of me” he hisses, “and father she left, she

this one has only

never realized just how much

her. All I’d cared about had been myself and what

to find her” I said in desperation, and Damien

go against her wishes, not when this is what she wants. I’ve already done enough to destroy het,, I

alone, where

down at the floor.

there to discover who she is and find a pack that

drag her back and make her miserable again” he explains, and I look away,

jaw tight.

just been decent to the poor girl? I could have given

classroom in front of other students and rejecting her. Of course,

of it. I feel a pang

us and I’m not stupid, I

travels if she went to various packs.

Damien tells me hollowly. “I think

messed up big time but you, you were like the final nail in the

up with everything,

of remorse and regret my actions, even if it’s too little, too late.

normally the best

it now” I say, just as miserable.

offer, and the