A Time for Change by Marquaylla Lorette Read Free Book Online

through his letters. To Chelsea, James was a responsible, protective person who would rather act on things instead of talking about them.
    Chelsea was more on the strategy side; she liked to plan everything or talk, not run. She knew James and Ace were going to make sure she was ready in every way for the battle with fighting techniques. Chelsea liked to go with the flow instead of practicing. She reacted when she was in the situation.
    James and Ace knew all those things about Chelsea but felt she needed to be overly prepared for the battle. They didn’t have room to make any mistakes during the battle.
    Ace, on the other hand, was a cross between James and Chelsea’s way of thinking about things. He liked to prepare for things somewhat but not too much and was unpredictable.
    “Come on, get up, I am going to run behind both of you so I can make sure you both are taking it seriously,” James said as he stood.
    Damn, I was going to walk behind them and pretend like I was running only when they turned around. I should have told him there was a rule and we could only practice with one of the Beta’s, well, one of our dads, Chelsea thought as James and Ace helped her up off the rock she was sitting on.
    James and Ace talked back and forth as they ran behind Chelsea. Chelsea couldn’t figure out how they had the energy to run and talk at the same time.
    “I bet she can only get through one lap before she starts complaining or tries to quit,” James said as he and Ace laughed.
    Chelsea whipped her head around and stuck out her tongue at them. She was just about to complain and stop but now that they were teasing her, she was going to show them by sucking it up and getting through it without any complaining. It wasn’t that she was tired, Chelsea just didn’t like running.
    “Nah, I bet she couldn’t even make it around the first time before she starts complaining,” Ace said.
    Both Ace and James knew the only way to make sure Chelsea was going to finish was to tease her into it.
    Chelsea was so exhausted by the time they were finished running around the river that James had to carry her to the car, but he suspected she was pretending just so she wouldn’t have to walk.
    After their drive home, the three went upstairs to get ready for bed. Tomorrow was going to be a long day training for the Beta Battle, so they wanted to get a good night’s sleep. After showering, they climbed into bed, but something was on Chelsea’s mind, the letters they sent each other over the years.
    “James, Ace, I have been thinking about the letters Jadelyn and Eli sent each other over the years. Do you guys think other things besides the stuff about Jadelyn were tampered with in the letters?” Chelsea asked worriedly, biting her bottom lip.
    “Like what?” James turned to her and asked.
    “Like everything we ever told each other in the letters we sent. What if it was tampered with?” Chelsea said.
    “How about we ask each other about the important things we read about each other and see if the answers are the same as the things the other wrote?" Ace asked.
    They realized none of the personal stuff they had wrote to each other about themselves was tampered with. All three breathed a sigh of relief when they realized everything they knew about each other was true.
     

 
    Chapter Four
     
    Eli, Charity, Greg, and their mates were already in the enclosed backyard of the Alpha house when Chelsea and her mates arrived, waiting to help Chelsea, James, and Ace train for the upcoming Beta Battle in two weeks.
    “Ace, Chelsea, and I will individually battle two of you at the same time. We will then battle all six of you against us three each night until two days before the battle,” James said.
    James stepped forward first to practice against Trevor and Greg. He wasn’t going to battle against Eli since they knew all of each other’s fighting maneuvers from all their years of training together since they were kids and being partners on