The Alpha Train (Christina) novel Chapter 19

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Christina

This man is entirely too sexy. AND he was number one on the leaderboard. I knew I was right about him, and it explains Dane going quiet on the phone. I didn’t tell him I had decided to take the classes, but he must know that Sebastian spent a lot of years on the leaderboard, so he knows that he’ll push me.

I moan as Sebastian pushes my head forward, pulling my hair out of the ponytail and working his strong fingers into my scalp. I feel goosebumps rise all over my body.

“Any other questions for me?” he asks softly. I can feel his breath on my neck, and it sends shivers down my spine. There’s no way he didn’t feel that.

“What’s your primary sense?” I ask, hoping it’s not scent. But, of course, I’m not that lucky.

“Scent. And yours is hearing. But we can work around that if you struggle in that class. But I doubt you will,” he says.

“Why do you say that?”

“You like to be the best. I think now that you’ve decided to take the classes, we’re about to see a whole other side of Alpha Christina.”

I shrug and moan again as his fingers move to my neck.

“All Alphas are competitive,” I say. Fuck, is this really what they teach. in the Academy? No wonder Sylvie and Mia told me I need to take the sex class. I think they get massaged like this the entire semester.

“That’s true. All Alphas are competitive. But not all of them are trying to prove something and you are.”

“You’re talking about Dane now.”

“I am. I think I’ve been clear about my thoughts of you being in his shadow.”

“You have,” I say. I’m already learning from Sebastian, and we haven’t even arrived at the Academy yet.

“Any other questions for me?”

“Less a question and more of an epiphany,” I say and even I can hear the change in my voice. Sebastian’s hands are working magic on my scalp. My voice is getting softer and deeper. I have no doubt that when lie flat on the table, he’ll either put me to sleep or into that trance he’s working hard to get me into right now.

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“What was your epiphany?” he asks, his voice staying low. It’s so fucking sexy that I have to squeeze my legs together. Damn him and his heightened sense of smell.

“The idea of walking in someone else’s shoes, I got that from Dane.”

“Mmm, yes, that makes sense. He has probably felt like he was walking in his father’s shoes his whole life. Why did you have the epiphany now?”

“We were talking about Tyler. He said he has big shoes to fill.”

“And what did you say to that?”

“I said that maybe Tyler should find his own shoes and not live in his brother’s shadow.”

I feel lips press to the point where my neck and shoulder connect, and I

gasp.

“I’m sorry, I should have asked first. May I put my mouth on you? Just in the area where I’m massaging. It will help you adjust to having my mouth on you.

“Okay,” I say as my heartrate speeds up even more. How can I feel so relaxed and so tightly wound up all at once?

“Thank you,” he says, and I feel his warm lips kissing the back of my neck, sending even more shivers down my spine.

“That was a perfect response by the way. How did Dane respond?”

He’s leaving a trail of white–hot kisses across my shoulder, each kiss igniting flames that are stoking a fire that is now burning low and steady in my core. It’s making me feel dizzy and hot and needy.

“He asked who my instructor was this semester.”

“Interesting.” he says, and I open my eyes.

“That’s what he said. I’m not sure what’s so interesting about it.”

“He can tell that I’m already pushing you to change,” he says, moving to kiss the other shoulder. “Was there more to your epiphany?”

“No.” I say. His hands are still massaging me as his mouth teases my body. When his mouth returns to my neck, I feel his warm tongue making lazy circles in a sensitive area of my neck.

I cry out before I can cut off the sound and he stops.

“Based on your scent, I’d say you liked that, but I’d like confirmation. Was that okay?”

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“Yes.”

“Your body is very responsive, Christina. You are going to make my job very easy this semester. How are you feeling?” he asks.

“Hot,” I say. It’s the first word that comes to mind.

“I could ease that ache for you, but I don’t think we’re there yet. Are you okay to continue, or is this too much?”

“I’m okay,” I say, not ready to have him stop touching me with both his mouth and his hands.

He starts massaging me again as he asks the next question. “I know Dane doesn’t think much of Alpha Logan, but what about you? What were your impressions of the young Alpha?” I feel like I’m going into a trance, like his words are floating in the air around me and the only thing keeping me grounded is the pressure of his firm hands working through the knots between my shoulder blades and his warm lips. pressed against my skin.

“The same as Alpha James. He’s cocky and arrogant and he’ll struggle because he’s used to being top dog and here, he’ll be nothing,” I s

say.

“Nothing?”

“Isn’t that what you say you do to the young Alphas? You strip them

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down then build them back up again, stronger than before?”

“Stripping them down doesn’t mean they’re nothing. But sometimes, it makes them feel like they’re nothing. We strip the Alphas to their core, to the person they are without anything else making them who they are. Some Alphas don’t like what they see when they get stripped down because there isn’t a lot to them without their title and physical strength. Some Alphas, like your brother, have more than enough of a foundation to build themselves back up again.”

I don’t have to ask him where he thinks I fall in that spectrum. He wouldn’t be pushing me to prove myself if he didn’t think I had a substantial core to build off of.

“What about Alpha Ezra?” he asks.

I feel his teeth graze the back of my neck, sending another round of shivers down my body.

“I like him,” I moan. The fingers stop momentarily, and I wonder if he’s surprised by my assessment.

“What do you like about him?”

“First, he ignored Emma completely. That earns points in my book. Second, he’s intense. He’s already asking better questions than Logan is. Logan’s questions are superficial. Ezra is getting more to the heart of what’s going on around him. I’m not sure Logan would have ever

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realized my last name was Kneeland if he hadn’t been there when Ezra asked me. He’s respectful of my title without looking like he wants to fuck me just because I’m an Alpha female. What about you, Sebastian? What’s your assessment of Alpha Ezra?” I don’t bother asking about Logan, I know my assessment of him is accurate.

“I think James is right and if your little star rating is correct, then you‘ re right about him too. He will give you the competition you’re craving this semester.”