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back on the Isle.  Baron knew Eli would protect Jadelyn, as he would, with everything he had.
    He smiled as he thought about the carefree younger Jadelyn, who did whatever she wanted no matter what others thought.  She stood up for what she believed in, even if she was the only one who believed it.  Like the time half of the Isle thought Eli’s grandmother was manipulating her visions into the outcomes she wanted them to be.  At just fourteen, Jadelyn went in search of someone who could prove Eli’s grandmother was giving everyone the correct vision he or she were to receive and live by.  Jadelyn went to the cat shifters of the Isle and found a cat with the power of truth.  Who proved Eli’s grandmother was relaying her visions to them just the way she saw them in her mind.  Jadelyn was the type to fight for everything she believed in, even as a child, and he wanted the true Jadelyn back.  The Jadelyn, who believed in herself no matter what others said about her.  In his heart, Baron knew Eli would be the shifter to bring the real Jadelyn back, not the shell of a shifter she was now, or maybe it was just a father’s wishful thinking.
    Baron wondered where Ella was as he stepped out of the car in front of the secured hospital.  He had left word with her parents about Jake's change in hospita ls.  It wasn’t like Ella not to be concerned with what was going on with her mate.  Baron made a note in his head to check on her as he stepped into the elevator.
    Jake was happy to finally be back home where he belonged.  He shouldn’t have let Ella talk him into moving away from his home, family and friends.  Jake was grieving at the time so it made it easier for Ella to talk him into anything back then he realized, as he thought back seventeen years ago.  He also realized he never saw Ella grieving the death of Kasey, as he and Eli were.  At first, he thought maybe she was grieving in private, but as the poison wore off, he realized that wasn’t true either.  It was as if Ella was a totally different person after Kasey’s death, and he didn’t like nor understand the person she had turned into.
    She gave him an ultimatum the first time he suggested they go back home to the Isle of Paradise, only two weeks after being in the human world.  Ella would tell him it was either they stay in the human world together or he and Eli go back to the Isle of Paradise alone.  He couldn’t lose Ella so soon after losing Kasey.  Jake already felt as though his heart was ripped out of his chest after Kasey’s death and didn’t want to feel it if he left Ella.
    Jake could hear footsteps approaching his room and listened closely to them.  He could tell it was Baron coming back by the way the shoes hit the floor and the sound of his keys jingling.  Jake smiled, his friend hadn’t changed much over the years, but he was worried about Jadelyn.  Jake wanted out of the hospital as quick as possible in order to help protect Jadelyn.  If Baron hadn’t told him he would do more harm than good, as sick as he was, he would be at the Alpha house now.
    “What is with the smile on your face, Baron?” Jake asked.
    “Oh nothing, just our kids have finally discovered they were mates,” Baron said.
    “What?” Jake asked.  He knew they were best friends but not mates. “Wow, that explains a lot, Baron, doesn’t it?”
    “No, their wolves would only have figured out they were mates when they turned fourteen.  They wouldn’t have figured it out until their sixteenth birthday, when the dreams of their mate’s scent surfaced, so it was just a true friendship connection all those years,” Baron answered.
    “Speaking of my boy, how is he and where is he at?” Jake asked with concern.  Eli had never been out of his sight for this long.  Well, only when he spent the night at the Alpha’s house.
    “ He’s in a tent sleeping under Jadelyn’s window.  Ace told him about the time someone tried to sneak into her room while she