He nods, and I'm confident that he'll make it to the fire challenge tomorrow. Alpha Daniel and Alpha Ezra are already stitched when we get there and the three of us make our way back. Alpha Logan and Alpha Noah both have towels against their faces. Alpha Logan's nose looks like it was broken but someone put it back in place and Noah's lip is split and bleeding. I look at Mia. "Neither of them got past the spinning pads," she says, arching an eyebrow as if their efforts were pa- thetic. Yikes.

2 I look up as Sebastian calls the start of another challenge, Alpha Liam against Alpha Benjamin. Liam gets across the spinning pads, but when he leaps at the bar ladder, his hands slip, and he falls to the ground on his back. Sebastian gets to him first, and by the time I get there, he's gasping for air. He, like me, had the wind knocked out of him and his back is bruised, but he's okay. "Christina, are you challenging anyone today?" Sebastian asks me. I look around.

"Have all the Alphas been challenged?" I don't want to win just because the other Alphas are tired from having already run through the Beast. "I wouldn't call what Noah gave me 'a challenge'." I smile. "Then yes, Sebastian. I challenge you, in human form again." He smiles and Alpha Daniel limps up to start our challenge. When he tells us to go, we both rush forward.

This time, Sebastian is faster on the spinning pads, but I'm faster on the bar ladder and I slide onto the ramp seconds behind him. I check the targets and the direction of the arrow launchers and make my way across the rope bridge with only a small slice where an arrow nicks me. I take a deep breath when I get to the fire, hearing the flames blazing out as Sebastian makes his way through. I crouch, and race through the fire, prepared for that final blast.

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It knocks me aside but not off the platform and I get to the next ramp and the fifth challenge. "Nice, Christina!" Sebastian encourages me. From fire to ice. The next challenge is what looks like metal pilings covered in ice. Shit. There are five of them, each one a little higher than the last. I'm pretty sure that if I do the same thing I did with the spinning pads, leap quickly, I'll get across. 0.0 % 12:29 Chapter 63 288 iVouchers I take a deep breath and leap.

One, two, three… and my foot slips out from under me. I slide sideways, grasping at the piling with my hand, just enough to swing my body back to the piling and slam my chin against the ice at the top. I bite through my tongue and taste blood pooling in my mouth. My hands grasp, trying to hold on, but I slip, unable to find any purchase on the slippery surface . I fall back to the ground, landing on my feet, but the sting of the landing shoots up my ankles all the way to my hips.

I hear a much softer landing beside me, and Sebastian is there, gently taking my face in his hands. "Let me see," he says, examining my face. "That's going to bruise," he says, gently running his thumb over my aching chin. "I can already feel it," I say and he frowns. "Did you bite your tongue?" I pull out of his hands and spit blood on the ground. "Sure-did." "Are you hurt anywhere else?" "My ankles sting and my hips are aching.

I didn't bend my knees when I landed and I felt it all the way up to my hips," I tell him. "I can work on that tonight in class. You'll just have to tell me if you're more sensitive than usual." "I can do that," I say, remembering that tonight is our first sex class, where I'll be the partner in front of the entire room. Sebastian I knew Christina would be a great assistant and an even better student. I just had no idea she'd be such a fantastic challenge.

Part of me is thrilled that she challenged me again on the Beast. It shows focus and determination. And I'm proud that she made it to the next level. She may end up being the first person to ever get through the Beast on week one. After lunch, I make sure that everything is ready for the sex class tonight. I expect that Christina will be nervous, but I know she'll still ask if there's anything that needs to be done. For tonight, I just need her to relax.