The Alpha Train (Christina and Sebastian) novel Chapter 465

Chapter 57

“I tried to back out.”

“Yeah, that was surprising. I mean, I know it’s not about me, excelling at the Academy is your dream, right?”

I shrug. “I almost left.”

“WHAT? When?” he asks sharply.

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“I meant it when I told you I care about you, Shane. I told Christian that I didn’t think I could go six months with you looking at me like I betrayed you.” I shrug. “I tried to withdraw from the sex class too, but Alpha Jackson denied my withdrawal form.”

He stares at me. “Goddess, I’m a fucking idiot.

I frown. “What do you mean?”

”

“Here I’ve been trying to convince myself that you weren’t using me and all this time, you’ve been doing just about everything you can to make achieving your goal impossible because I hurt you.”

I look at him, hoping he can see the truth of my words in my eyes. “I care about you more than I care about being on the leaderboard, Shane.”

He stares at me a moment, then leans forward to gently presses his lips to mine. Then he leans his forehead against mine.

“I have an idea.”

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“What’s that?” I ask.

“How about, as we rebuild ourselves over this semester, we work to rebuild our friendship from the ground up. We’ll be Shane and Tiana 2.0.”

I smile “2.0?”

“Yeah, you know, like the revised, upgraded version of us. We’ll come back stronger than ever.”

“As long as we’re still together, I’ll be happy.”

“Good.”

We spend the rest of the evening talking and catching up. It feels so good to have my friend back.

Shane

Goddess, it feels good to be with Tiana again. The cold that had begun to seep into my bones and into my soul is gone and it feels like I can breathe again.

When she walked into breakfast the next morning, after I was already sitting, she came and sat at the same table with me. Cole looked between her and me, a smile flashing onto his face.

“YES! They’re back!” he said.

“Thanks to you,” I told him.

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