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she was just his best friend.  The first few days off the Isl e without her or his mother were the worst, but over time, the emptiness without them lessened. 
    His father found a job as an accountant and dove into his work, leaving no time for Eli as he did before his mother’s death.  Ella also started changing the first day they arrived in the human world; no longer was she the best doting mother but a cruel one.  She had steel doors installed all through the house, so he wouldn’t be able to break them down by shifting.  Then she locked him in his room or the closet until his father got home.
    Eli quickly developed an escape plan to stay away from her by throwing himself into every after-school program.  When school wasn’t in, he hung out with the only shifter in their city who lived next door , his best friend, James, along with James’s younger sister.  They often snuck into the woods together and shifted when their wolves fought to get out.  They not only had to hide it from their parents but the humans as well, since they had no idea shifters lived among them. 
    The years quickly flew by with all the activities he was in , before he knew it, he was eighteen and able to go back home alone.  He was more than ready to leave to see his best friend, even though Jadelyn never responded to the letters he sent her over the years.  He knew when he stepped onto the Isle everything would go back to the way it was before he left, or so he thought. 
    Eli ran into a problem after he turned eighteen.  Just as he was about to leave, his father became sick.  He could’ve left him behind and let Ella take care of him, but something told him his father would die if he left him in Ella’s care.  He threw out all his plans of coming back to the Isle until his grandmother’s letters.  In the letters, she dropped certain hints to him telling him about the Alpha Battle and the Isle of Paradise had the best hospitals.
    His grandmother was the only she-wolf gypsy shifter still alive.  Having gypsy blood in him meant he could either take on the role as Alpha or Beta.  It all depended on what blood his mate had running through her.  Since his grandmother wrote him telling him to come back home for the Alpha Battle, he knew his mate must be an Alpha.
    Eli groaned on the inside when he thought back to how hard it was to convince Ella it was time to come back home for his father’s sake.  It seemed like she always had a con to the pros he gave her for moving back to the Isle.  The day before they left for the Isle, Eli and Ella were arguing back and forth again about returning when his father, who they thought couldn’t hear them at the time spoke up for himself.  He told them he could make his own decisions about his health, and for Eli to call for the Isle of Paradise’s private jet to be ready for them the next day.  Before falling back into a comatose sleep, his father also made sure they would drive him straight to the hospital as soon as the plane landed on the Isle.
    He pounded on the walls in the shower when he thought about his grandmother’s last hint about the hospital.  If he hadn’t been so caught up in working his way up through the police force, he would have known to take his father to the hospital on the Isle of Paradise, since the human doctors had no idea what was wrong with him.  He punched the tile in the shower, hard enough to crack it, as his mind went back to what he learned about his father today.
    Eli paced up and down the waiting room in the hospital as the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with his father. 
    “Eli, are you okay and where is Ella?” Alpha Baron asked as he entered the waiting room.  Seeing the Alpha brought back both some wonderful and painful memories of Eli’s past.  
    Eli and the Alpha’s daughter, Jadelyn, along with Ace and Chelsea, were best friends since they were younger . They never went anywhere without the other.  Jadelyn and Eli were always