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    “I just feel guilty about what happened to my parents. I keep thinking if only I went home earlier, my parents would be alive,” James said as he threw more rocks in the water, trying to release his frustration.
    “James, I have to tell you something I found out this morning. I talked to Aishe, and she said your parents knew they would never step foot on this Isle again and would die before they even left the Isle. They left the Isle to give you and your sister a better life. Now live the life they wanted you to without any guilt, make them and yourself proud,” Ace said.
    James had no idea his parents knew what was to come from all those years ago and he didn’t know how to feel about it. He wished they had told him so he could have protected them when he wasn’t around. James would have stationed law enforcement around his parent’s home whenever he left the house if they would have told him. It pissed him off that his parents died willingly. They could still be alive if only they told me everything, not just what they wanted me to know, James thought as he picked up another rock.
    James wrote abandonment on another rock and threw it into the water with a fierce throw. He didn’t know why, he just felt like his parents had abandoned both he and his sister when they died. James knew in his heart his parents would have fought for their lives if possible or told him what was going on if they could.
    On his final rock, James wrote negative thoughts; he wanted to throw away all his negative thoughts and start fresh. He would live his life to the fullest since his parents died for him to be able to. James knew in his heart he would see the changes on the Isle through like his parents wanted and needed him to because if he didn’t, he would feel like they died for no reason.
    “How about you guys tell me about this Beta Battle and how it works,” James said; he wanted to change the subject and learn about the battle at the same time. He knew they had to win the title as First Beta for the changes to happen.
    “We have to win all of our battles the first day, that way we won’t have to battle again until the following week. There will be four battles. If we only lose one out of the four battles, we will still have a chance the next night. The first battle we will be on our own. You fight once alone, Chelsea fights once alone, and I fight once alone, and then we fight as a couple. Whoever wins three out of four battles will battle against each other the following night until they find a winner. We will only have to battle for the title against the person who won the losing battle the following week if we win all four battles in the first round. So we have to win all four of our battles.
    “If we lose the first night, we will have a second chance the next night. To battle everyone who lost three and two out of the four battles. The last two shifter couples standing in that battle moves on to the finale the next week. Where they would battle each other to see who gets to fight the winner of the first battle,” Ace said.
    “Since the school is being built now, we should wait until after the battle is finished before we start teaching. We need to start training with James now in private,” Chelsea said.
    “How about we call Eli, Trevor, Greg, Jadelyn, Charity, and Treasure to train against all at once. It will help us practice fighting as a couple and keep up our stamina during the battle. Come on, let’s get started. We are going to run around this lake three times before we meet them behind the Alpha house,” James said.
    Chelsea sighed. She knew James was going to have some crazy training plan when they told him everything about the battle. Chelsea and Ace had been writing James separately over the years since a few weeks after Eli moved to the human side. James wanted to know what it was like on the Isle and what other shifters were like besides Eli. Chelsea felt as though she knew who James was