Mates with the Alpha

Chapter 5

POV: Storm
'This is what you've been hiding from me?' I all but scream at my wolf. 'But she's human...' I think confused.
'Yes, but now is not time. Pay attention to her.' He growls at me

I smirk when I see Rose practically eye raping me. But I couldn't blame her, I know she felt the bond. I'm so absorbed in her that I don't hear anything that Mrs. Woods says. But as she turns, I see bruises covering her neck. I hold back a growl as my wolf fights to get out.

Who would hurt her?

"Storm, would you show Ms. Winters around?" I almost shiver in pleasure at the sound of her name.

Rose Winters.

"I'd love to." Just as she starts to protest, I playfully put my hand over her mouth. And she immediately stiffens and flinches away from me, like I had just burned her with a hot iron. I would never hurt my mate, and to know that she thinks I would makes me and my wolf whimper loudly. My hearts breaks even more as I see her eyes start to water and she runs out the door.

"What is that about?" I growl accusingly to Mrs. Woods. I see her physically cower away and put her head down submissively. These ladies and gentlemen are the highlights of being alpha.

"I don't know, Alpha. I saw c-cuts and br-bruises across her ar-arm w-when she reached for her schedule." That's all I needed before running after her down the hall.

"Rose," I call out, "wait up!" But instead of stopping she seemed to have speed up her already fast-walking. I didn't want to scare her but I couldn't let her out of my sight. Not now, not ever again.

I run over to her and make sure I don't touch her, even though my wolf is aching to. I wonder if her skin is as soft as it feels... I need to snap out of this. My Rose is obviously in pain, whether it's physically or emotionally, I don't know, but I need to help her with whatever I can.

"Rose" No response. "Rose, please just talk to me..." I beg. I don't ever beg. It's not in an Alpha's nature. We don't need to beg for anything. We get anything we want when we want it. There's never been any problems.

But there's always a first for everything.

POV: Rose
Upon hearing his plea I stop dead in my tracks. He just begged me.

Someone just begged me.

I turn around quickly, bumping my head into a rock. Ouch, I think as I rub my head and look up to meet pale blue-green eyes and I realize I ran into Storm's chest.

Can today get any worse?

I drop my eyes down, suddenly noticing how intimidating he is, much more than my father. My eyes start to water as I think how much more pain this boy- scratch that- man could cause me than Michael.

He moved his fingers gently under my chin and pushed it up so I was forced to look at him. "Rose, don't cry. Please don't cry" his voice sounded pained and...guilty? Why would he be guilty? I'm the one who ran away from him. I was the one being disrespectful, not the other way around.

"I'm sorry"
"That's alright, you have nothing to e sorry for. Now wipe those tears we have first period to go to." He smiles brightly at me, while he led us both in the direction of my first period, science.

And this time when he made a move to put his arm around my shoulder, I didn't flinch. He looked proud at my lack of protesting and it made my heart swell. In his arms I felt protected from the scary things in the world, and i didn't want it ever to end.