The Alpha Train (Christina and Sebastian) novel Chapter 185

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Chapter 118: Logan

Logan

We said goodbye to Liam and Noah two days ago. We said goodbye to Tyler yesterday and today it’s time for Ezra and I to leave the Train. Part of me is glad that I’ll be coming back in a week. There’s a lot that I need to get done at home in the upcoming week, but this time, I know I’ll be ready to take on the Academy. The next time I walk off this Train, it will be as the Alpha of my pack.

Our Dealing with Crisis class had become intense over the past. month. All of us had things we had to prepare for when we returned home, mine was facing my parents, but specifically, my mother.

I’m not surprised when the warrior who picks me up looks. uncomfortable around me. I failed the Academy. They would have gotten the news by now. Everyone thinks that means that my mother is right about me and that I’m not going to take my place as Alpha of my pack. That means they would be stuck with my mother and father for two more years until my brother could go to the Academy and pass.

They’re mistaken and they’re all going to realize it very quickly.

No one is waiting outside for me when I arrive home, not that I‘ m surprised. However, when I walk in, she’s standing there with a sneer on her face, my father standing beside her looking defeated. Has he always looked like this? I guess I’d become so used to it that I didn’t notice anymore. My brother is also there,

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and I’m not quite sure what I see on his face. Pity? Victory? Maybe a bit of both.

“Well, I’m surprised you were willing to show your face here after failing the Academy. Not that I’m surprised you failed, you understand. You are your father’s son after all. You’ll never amount to anything more than a womanizing, beer–guzzling, loser. It’s a good thing we have your brother here to take over as Alpha,” she says.

I stare at her for a long moment, truly wondering where all of this hatred has come from. I did a lot of soul searching at the end of my time at the Academy and I can’t ever remember a time when my mother acted like she loved me. When I go back next week, I intend to work on my issues of not wanting to find my mate. I need to get past the feelings that my mother hast created inside me so that I can value and appreciate the gift the Moon Goddess gives me when she chooses to bestow my mate upon me.

“You have three months mother,” I say quietly.

“Three months for what?” she scoffs.

“Three months to find a new place to live,” I say and the entire packhouse goes deathly quiet. My father’s head snaps up, but still, he says nothing.

“Excuse me?”

“I’m returning to the Academy in one week and when I do, there‘ s no question that I’ll pass. I will return to this pack as it’s Alpha and when that happens, you will no longer be welcome here. Unlike my father, I do not intend to let you spew your anger and hatred over me and this pack,” I say, and she gasps and stares

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at me like I’ve grown a second head.

It’s like the world tilts on its axis. Everything that never made sense, makes perfect sense now. It’s not just that I look like my father, it’s that I’ve been a constant reminder of what my father did to my … no, she’s not my mother. She never was. Something deep inside me settles. This was never about me. I know I’ll have to make this whole revelation a priority when I go back to the Academy, but at least I know there, I can work through this safely and with people who really do care about me.

“It honestly makes me feel better knowing that I’m not your son. It explains a lot,” I say to her before turning to my father. “You’ve let her make you feel guilty for loving and wanting your fated

mate for eighteen years, father. When are you going to stop letting her punish you? When are YOU going to stop punishing yourself?”

He looks at me with years of grief and torment in his eyes.

“I want to meet with you this week while I’m home. I want to learn everything there is to learn about the pack and how you’ve been running it. When I return, I’m taking over,” I tell him before turning back to my mother.

“Three months, and I want you gone.”

I turn and begin walking upstairs to my room. The woman I thought was my mother my entire life begins screaming obscenities at me and my father, but I ignore her.

When I get to the Alpha floor, I turn and see my father watching me. I’m pretty sure that’s pride that I see shining in his eyes.

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