The Alpha Train (Christina and Sebastian) novel Chapter 168

Chapter 101: Liam

Liam

I still have Christina’s words spinning around in my head after lunch as we head to Communication class. Just as I’m about to walk into the classroom, I see Luna Mia walking up.

“What are you doing here, Luna?” I ask her. She doesn’t usually sit in this class. Lunas Sylvie and Josephine are the assistants for these instructors. Most classes have all of the instructors in them now, but the assistants rarely join being busy with other duties.

“I’m here for moral support,” she says wrapping an arm around my shoulders as we walk into the classroom.

I’m not sure what she means by that until Alpha James starts the class calling me and Noah to the front, Noah as Alpha.

I glance at Luna Mia who leans against the wall in a place where she’ll be in my direct line of sight. She’s here for me.

Į sigh as I sit. I know what’s coming. I’ve watched it with the others. Hell, I was in the Alpha seat with Logan. So, rather than shy away from it, I prepare myself to face it head on. This is supposed to make us stronger and that’s what I need to do, become a stronger, better Alpha.

“Hey, Liam.”

“Hey, Noah,” I say, both of us smiling awkwardly.

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“So, I honestly have no idea what broke you. We all saw you walk out of the Sensory class, but you were too far away from me to hear what Alpha Will said to you. Do you want to talk about it?” he begins, obviously struggling to know where to start.

I could make this hard for him, but that won’t help me. I look up at Luna Mia and she nods her head, encouraging me to be honest and work through the issues with my father.

“He basically said that if I didn’t get my shit together, I’d never amount to anything,” I say. I grit my teeth, forcing myself to be vulnerable in front of my peers. “It’s basically the same thing my father has said to me my entire life He says I’m not good

enough, that if he had any other choice of an heir, he would give the pack to them. He says I’m nothing more than fuck up who is barely worth the title of Alpha.”

“Well, that fucking sucks,” Noah says.

“Yeah, it does.”

“So, how have you been working through that?” he asks.

“Luna Mia has helped me to see that the issue is my father’s, not mine. I came here, honestly not caring if I passed the semester because no one expected me too anyway. That first week when I realized that I might actually fail, I freaked out. I don’t want to be the failure that my father thinks I am. That’s why I used the time in this class to ask Christina how to fix it. I may have expected to fail, but as soon as I was facing that failure, I realized I didn’t want to fail. I want to succeed. I want to be a good Alpha.”

I look up at Luna Mia. Her eyes are focused on me.

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“Luna Mia found out that my father not only failed the Academy twice, but he barely passed it when he did. She’s been working with me to help me see that everything he has said to me are really his feelings about himself.”

“Realizing that doesn’t make it easy to move past years of hearing those words, though, does it?” Noah asks.

“No, it doesn’t,” I say, looking over at Ezra. “When I defeated the Beast, you came up and congratulated me. Do you remember what you said?” I ask him.

“Something like, ‘Great job, I knew you could to it,” he says.

“Yeah, that’s exactly what you said. You said you knew I could do it. You knew it, but I didn’t. I didn’t think I could do it until I did it. I’ve always been told that I couldn’t, so I never expected that I could.”

I look at Christina. “Christina and I talked earlier and what you said has been spinning around in my head. You said that everyone here sees the potential in me, except me.”

“Yes, I did. And I believe that,” she says.

I turn back to Noah. “Do you see it? Do you see that potential in me?”

“Absolutely. Dude, I couldn’t get past the first challenge in the Beast until Christina helped me. You were so far ahead of where I was that I thought I’d never be able to measure up to you, not the other way around. And you’re smart, Liam. You figured out early that you didn’t want to fail and you did what you needed to do to fix it. Isn’t that what good Alphas do? When you see the problem, you figure out how to correct it? That’s what I think,

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“And that’s okay. Sometimes an Alpha doesn’t need to fix the problem for someone else. Liam is figuring out his own issues. You gave him a safe space to speak, to work through what’s going on in his mind, and you offered your support. It’s important to know that sometimes, that’s what’s needed. We don’t always have to fix the problems of others. Sometimes they just need to know they’re on the right track and have help if they need it. Any feedback, Liam? And for what’s it’s worth, I see a shit–ton of potential in you.”

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