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about it, she realized there was one way someone could hide their scent from their mate, but it was a bit dangerous to do so.  Witches were the only ones who could cast the spell to block the shifter’s mate from being able to scent them.  Well, there was one other possible reason she couldn’t find her mate anywhere, and it had to do with the Isle of Paradise.   
      Isle of Paradise consisted of shifters, witches and warlocks, and other magical beings only, since humans had no idea the Isle existed, which they wanted to keep it that way.  A handful of shifters and their families moved off the Isle to try to lead a normal life among the humans.  Maybe her mate moved off the Isle, or maybe he learned of her latency and hid his mating scent from her.  Between the two possibilities she came up with of why she couldn’t scent her mate, she would bet her life it was the latter one.
    When she thought more about it, Jadelyn realized her mate could be down there training right now and she wouldn’t have any idea.  As she realized this, she didn’t want to be there anymore.  She wished she could stay home until it was her time to train, but her father wouldn’t let her because of all the threats made on her life.  Ever since her eighteenth birthday, when the shifters on the Isle of Paradise found out she was latent, Jadelyn had received death threats.  Many shifters on the Isle felt she was a weakness to her father since she wasn’t able to shift.  One man was bold enough to tell her father he should disown her and send her off the Isle, but her father wouldn’t do it; instead, he set an example out of the male shifter.  He thought by setting the example of the one man would get the others to steer clear of his daughter, yet it didn’t.  Since they felt she caused non-shifters to see them as the weaker species on the Isle, they set out to scare her away for what they thought was for the greater good of their Pack.    
    One night after training with her father for the upcoming Alpha Battle, she found a bloody doll on her bed with her face on it.  The doll had pins sticking out of its chest, and its head bashed in with a note stuck to it.  The note, written in blood, said, Y ou are next, watch your back because we are coming for you.  After seeing the note and the doll, her father never let Jadelyn be more than a few feet out of his sight—even though she was twenty-nine years old.  When she could talk him into letting her go out with her friends, he sends ten of his most trusted Enforcers with her.
    Jadelyn thought back to her mother and Eli, when someone interrupted her.  “Jadelyn, it’s mine and Ace’s turn to train.  We will see you back at home,” her best friend, Chelsea, told her.
    While Chelsea and Ace made their way toward the field, she reached down and pulled from her pink purse, a light snack, and the diary she received last year on her twenty-ninth birthday.  Her father bought her the diary when he noticed there were just some things she needed to tell her mother instead of him.  Jadelyn and her father were always close, but they became even closer after her mother’s death, even though he still didn’t understand her ways from time to time. 
    Her mother was killed in a car accident, along with her mother's best friend.  Jadelyn always wondered what her and her father’s lives would be like if her mother had never died.
    Jadelyn shook her head.  She couldn’t get caught up in thinking about her mother when it was almost her turn to train. She needed a clear head when she was on the field.  After pulling open the bag of baby carrots, she popped one in her mouth and began writing to her mother in her diary.  Writing her mother always cleared her head and if this wasn’t a perfect time after thinking about her, she didn’t know when was.
     
    Dear Mom,
     
    I wish you were still here to help me through this terrible time in my life.  I found out who my true friends were on