Free Alpha Battle by Marquaylla Lorette Page B

you, I just want to talk.  Eli, I just wanted to thank you for making my daughter truly happy again.  Just make sure you keep her that way, and always cherish and protect her with everything you have.  That is all I ask of you, and Ace, I trust you will continue to do the same with Chelsea.  I came out here to tell you something else.  Eli, your father will not be able to make it to the first battle, but he should be well enough to attend the final battle.  You and Jadelyn just have to have enough faith in yourselves and each other and you can do anything,” Baron said as he grabbed a few of Eli’s bags and headed toward the door.
    Eli couldn’t believe it, he thought he would at least yell at him.  He stood there in shock , looking on as Baron and Ace made their way toward the front door with his bags in their hands.
    “Eli,” Ace yelled, snapping Eli out of the trance he was in.
    Eli shook his head, trying to clear the fog out of it as he grabbed the rest of his bags and followed Baron and Ace into the house.  He already had all the faith he needed in him and Jadelyn. He knew they could do anything they put their minds to.  They always worked better together, even when they were younger.  Eli looked up at the house and smiled—they will win the Alpha Battle and the Alpha house will be theirs.  Well, not until Baron decided to step down and move into one of the houses deep in the backyard, where all the retired Alphas in Baron and Jadelyn’s family lived.
     
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    Ella hugged and kissed her parents and made her way out their front door as quick as she could.  They had been getting on her nerves and smothering her ever since they picked her up from in front of the hospital.  She didn’t even know what was going on with Jake nor was she concerned.  Her feelings for him had changed ever since the death of their tri-mate, and Eli’s mother, Kasey.  Everything between Jake and her were different, especially how he touched and made love to her.  It made Ella feel as though he loved Eli’s mother more than he loved her.  Those feelings caused the love and care she once had for him to disappear.  If anything, she thought Kasey’s death would be the one thing that brought them closer together, not further apart.  Not only did she have to deal with his moping and groaning, but she had to deal with his son’s as well.  She wished Eli and Jake would just disappear out of her life, and she would do whatever it takes to make that happen, and them miserable.
    She was a few minutes late to the meeting that would make her wishes happen.  Ella jumped into her parent's car and flew to the other side of the Isle doing a hundred all the way there while sipping on her coffee.  This was what she loved about this Isle—you can get away with a lot before the police intervened.  She tossed the empty cup in the back seat as she pulled up to the discreet location of her secret meeting.
    When Ella parked , the person she was secretly meeting slid discreetly into Ella’s backseat.  Ella kept her head straight never looking at the person behind her.
    “Why are you guys back so early ? This was not part of the plan, Ella.  We agreed you wouldn’t bring them back until after the battle happened,” the mysterious women said to Ella as she laid down on the backseat so no one would be the wiser if they were to pass them.
    “I have everything in control on my end , you just make sure you win the Alpha Battle,” Ella said, finally looking into the backseat through the review mirror.
    The mysterious woman in the backseat chuckled.  “Make no mistake , I am going to win, who is going to beat me?  Jadelyn.  You must have forgotten she is a latent wolf.”
    “No , make no mistake, Jadelyn maybe latent, but her family has not only the strongest Alpha blood, they also have the strongest power in wolf shifter history, and Jadelyn has it on both her mother and father’s side,” Ella said.
    “I will beat her and