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

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

than a

note” he whispered, “saying that she couldn’t bear to stay

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

been disrespected? I’d kill anyone who’d dared

them” I declared, but Damien shook

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

one has only caused her suffering

never realized just how much

it worse by trying to reject her. All I’d cared about had been myself

and Damien began to laugh. It’s almost

this is what she wants. I’ve already done enough to destroy het,, I won’t take this away from her as well”, he snaps, and I glower at

your sister out there, alone, where anything could happen” I scoffed, and he

down at the floor.

is and find a pack that loves her, a place

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

jaw tight.

I have just been decent to the poor girl? I

her. Of course, she would have been teased

of it. I feel a pang in my heart

stupid, I know there’s every chance that

chance mate in her travels if she went to various packs. That hurts and

tells me hollowly. “I think it was the last straw for

worthy of being loved. I messed up big time but you,

fed up with everything, then I’d clearly made

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

too. We’re normally the best of friends, but not

to change it now” I

and the boy merely