Chapter 128: Christina
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When James calls an end to the meeting, he stays to talk more with Finn and go over the curricula with him. Sebastian and I take our class information back to our room. Our room. I moved my things into his room after breakfast. It’s tight, but I don’t care and neither does he.
When we get to our room, he rips my clothes off me and takes me hard and rough against the wall, both of us desperate to connect again. We don’t separate again until dinner time and. then once we’re back in our room, it’s similar to how it was before. We talk, go over our schedules and ideas for our classes and then we make love for hours. It feels good to be back into our routine. It’s comfortable but also better this time since our connection is stronger.
The next day we get to the first stop for the young Alphas. Alpha Logan is the only one at this stop. We all congregate to greet him.
“Welcome back, young Alpha,” James says when he boards.
“Thank you. It’s good to be back,” he says, coming around to greet everyone. When he gets to me, his nose goes up in the air and his eyebrow rises. I smile and pull my shirt away from my neck to show him my mate mark.
“Congratulations. Have you told Tyler and Ezra yet?” he asks.
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“Not yet. We were planning to do that this afternoon,” I tell him.
“I’d like to talk to all of you this afternoon as well, preferably before the others board. I know they’ll get there this semester, but I already have some things I know I need to deal with and I’d like to get a head start on them so I’m ready when I go home at the end of the semester.”
“I take it you had a rough time when you got home,” Sebastian says to him.
He scrubs his hands down his face. “You could say that. It was sort of like an early hell week for me. Do you know who is teaching Dealing with Crisis this semester?” he asks.
“I am,” Sebastian tells him.
“Then you and I will be doing a lot of talking, Alpha. Who is your back up?”
“I am,” I say.
He turns and looks at me and a slow smile spreads across his face.
“Congratulations again, Alpha,” he says.
“Thanks, Alpha.”
His eyes twinkle with mischief. “Who’s teaching the Strength class?”
“I am,” I say, and he bursts out laughing.
“It’s going to be one hell of a semester. Make sure you tell Ezra and Tyler you’re an instructor. They’ll be sad they’re missing it.
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Hey, that reminds me. Tyler and Haley?” he asks.
“Mates,” I tell him.
“Good for them. I’m sad I’ll have my birthday while I’m here, but it is what it is.”
“When’s your birthday?” Charlotte asks him.
“Next week. You wouldn’t be interested in making me a cake for my birthday, would you?” he asks her.
“What kind?”
“I love chocolate cake.”
“I can make you a chocolate cake for your birthday.”
“Thanks, Charlotte.”
“You’re welcome. And, uh, I’m assigned as your partner for the sex class.”
Logan becomes serious. “We should talk, sooner rather than later. I won’t be making the same mistakes this semester that I did last semester.”
“Okay,” she says.
After lunch, Sebastian and I go to our room and video call Tyler first, telling him and Haley the good news. They are both very excited and invite us to visit them in their pack. Next, we call Ezra who has just returned home after helping Liam.
“Congratulations! I’m really happy for both of you,” he says.
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“How is Liam?” I ask him.
“He’s… better than I would have expected. He chose well for his Beta and Gamma in my opinion, and they are all working hard to bring his pack back to a working, functional, profitable pack.”
“I’ll have James reach out to him and offer our assistance and. guidance if he needs it,” Sebastian tells him.
“He’d appreciate that. He’s working hard, but without his Luna and with the pack in chaos, he could use whatever support your could offer him.”
After dinner, rather than going to our room, Sebastian and I sit with Logan and the others.
Logan leans forward and tells us that the woman he thought. was his mother, isn’t his mother and that his real mother, his father’s fated mate, died giving birth to him.
“I gave her three months to get out of my pack and that was before I knew that she wasn’t my mother. She’s not happy about it and I expect there to be blowback when I go home. That’s part of what I need to work through,” he says to Sebastian.
“What else do you need to work through,” James asks him.
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“Two things, as of right now. I need to work through my anger at the woman I thought was my mother. We did a bit of that when I was here before, but I really need to focus on it this semester. I want to be a good mate to my Luna when I find her. Right now, I‘ m not so sure I can be the man that she would deserve. I never cared about finding my mate before, but now, I really want to find her. I want to make a change in my life and in the pack. They deserve better than what they’ve suffered with my father’s
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and step–mother’s lack of leadership. I hope the Moon Goddess gives me a loving, kind woman and I want to be worthy of her. It’ s what my pack needs and it’s what I need in my life,” he says honestly.
“Damn, Logan. You’ve come so far in a short amount of time,” I tell him.
“Thank you, Alpha. That means a lot coming from you,” he says.
“You said there were two things, Logan. What’s the second?” Sebastian asks. I know my mate is already planning how to help. Logan deal with these issues in our Dealing with Crisis class. I’ll talk to him tonight about his plan and together I know we’ll make sure Logan is successful.
“I need to work through my anger at my father. I understand he felt guilty over what he did, but he let my step–mother abuse him, me, and therefore the pack for years. I told him he needed to forgive himself and stop letting her make him feel guilty for loving and wanting his fated mate. He surprised me by rejecting her. It’s made him weak, it’s thrown the pack into chaos, and now I’m gone for nearly three months. I expect a shitstorm when I return, and I have a lot of anger at my father because of that. So, I want to be prepared to deal with all of it when I return. home.”
“We’ll make sure you’re prepared, Alpha Logan,” Sebastian says.
“Thank you.”
“Alpha Logan, I know it’s my first time as an instructor, but hearing you, your willingness and intention to work through the issues that you know you will face when you go back to your pack, well, it’s inspiring. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this
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semester, but if I can look forward to seeing the kind of growth that you’ve apparently gone through in one semester, then I have to say, I’m a bit more excited to be a part of this process,” Alpha Finn says.
I feel the flood of happiness from Sebastian, and I see it on James‘ face at Alpha Finn’s words. I’m not sure everything happens for a reason, but maybe Logan failing last semester was ne
to help Alpha Finn find his reason for being again.
The next day, Alpha Asher and Alpha Jackson join our group. The Train will still stop at the last stop, but we won’t be picking up any more Alphas after today.
“Yeah! Let’s ride the Train bitches!” one of the Alphas says as he boards the Train. Logan snorts beside me.
“That sounds familiar,” he murmurs, reminding me that Liam said something similar when he boarded the Train last.
semester.
When the young Alpha gets to me, he stops, grinning. “Hello gorgeous. I’m Alpha Asher.”
I put out my hand to shake his. “Alpha Christina, mated, uninterested, and one of your instructors this semester,” I tell him. I can feel Sebastian grinning beside me.
“Instructor? But you’re a she–wolf. What pack have you ever run?” he asks arrogantly.
“She’s number two on the leaderboard, asshole. Show some respect, because I guarantee you, she’ll chew you up, spit you out and then stomp whatever’s left of you into the ground until you are dust,” Logan says, saying nearly verbatim what I said to
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Noah on his first day on the Train. Logan really does pay more attention than any of us gave him credit for.
“Seriously?” Asher asks.
“Geez, was I this much of an asshole when I first got on the Train?” he asks.
“Yes,” we all say, making him shake his head as the rest of us chuckle.
“I’m glad you didn’t give up on me,” Logan says.
“It’s our job as instructors and assistants to see beyond the arrogance to what’s underneath, young Alpha. I can’t say that I saw this much potential in you back then, but I saw enough,” Sylvie tells him.
“I’m really glad you did,” he says.
Two days later, we arrive at the Academy. Sebastian and I decide to take my old room, since it has a better view and since there are so few of us this semester, there won’t be anyone in the room beside us.
Sebastian makes a point of leaving his scent all over me and our room that first night. Then I took him out to the B
