Chapter 32
**Ronan's POV**
My cheek still burns.
I sit in my car outside the school parking lot, staring at my reflection in the rearview mirror. The red mark from Evangeline's hand is fading, but I can still feel it. Like her fingers left something behind that goes deeper than skin.
I touch the spot where she hit me, and my wolf whimpers. Actually whimpers. Like a beaten dog crawling back to its master. The sound makes me sick.
She hit me. An Omega hit me. Hit an Alpha. Hit her mate.
And I did nothing.
I should have grabbed her wrist. Should have shown her what happens when someone forgets their place. Should have made her apologize on her knees in the dirt until she remembered who she was talking to.
But I didn't. I just stood there like an i***t while she walked away from me.
