The Alpha TrainChapter 211
The Alpha Train
Chapter 211
“Maybe I should try it with ice my first time,” he says.“You don’t want to get used to the numbing effects. But for me and my family, it’s a nice way to unwind at the end of the day. My parents used to sit and have a glass of whiskey every night, talking to each other. When we got older, my sister and I joined them. It’s something that I miss about home, and I’d like for you and I to start talking at the end of the day. It will give us a chance to talk through anything that came up that you may have concerns about, questions about, or we can just use this time to talk,” I say, pouring another glass for me and grabbing a couple cubes of ice from the mini–fridge in the office. I put the ice in his glass and sit across from him, sipping my whiskey.He looks in his glass, swirling the amber liquid around the ice. I wait, letting him decide if there is anything he wants to say.“I’m not sure how to pull myself out of this grief,” he finally says, his voice barely above a whisper.“I don’t think it works like that. Grief doesn’t just go away. I think it fades over time, gets easier to manage, but you don’t pull yourself out of the trenches of it, not when it consumes you like it is,” I say.“But I should be able to, right? Other Alphas who lose their parents figure it out,” he says.“Well, not every Alpha loses both parents within days of each other. Not every Alpha is sixteen when they suffer that loss, and not every Alpha was just starting to learn how to be an Alpha when his parents died. I don’t think you should compare yourself to others. Your situation and theirs are different in any number of ways. I think what
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