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the police force for twelve years. They knew what move the other was going to use before they did so Eli was going to help Ace with his battle training instead.
    Eli blew the whistle, which signaled for the training to begin. James stayed back and waited for Trevor and Greg to approach him first. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Greg as he tried to maneuver behind him while Trevor was coming at him from the front.
    James knew they were trying to plan a sneak attack and knew he had to do something before they could. So he closed his eyes and concentrated on calling forth a little of both his wolf and lion shifters abilities. His senses were quickly enhanced; he could smell, hear, and sense things all around him without looking. James swiftly sensed someone getting closer on his right side without having to open his eyes. He waited until the shifter was close enough to him before he made his move.
    Greg knew it was time to make his move. Greg walked up on the side of James slowly as not to alert him of his presences, the closer he walked the more confident he became that he could get to James before James realized it. Just before he could take the last step to close the gap between them, James grabbed Greg by the arm—shocking Greg—right before flipping Greg over and onto his back. James then opened his eyes, and looked down at Greg.
    Trevor brought his wolf senses to the front a little before approaching James. He could tell from James’s elongated pupil that his cat shifter was close to the surface.
    Greg was back up by this time with a more aggressive look on his face. At first, he didn’t think they were going to really battle. He was just going to tap James on the shoulder, letting him know he had to work on watching his surroundings, but now that he knew they were actually going to fight in the practice, he was ready.
    Greg and Trevor approached James on either side of him, ready to react to anything they could throw at him. Without warning, James flipped in the air and landed closer to Greg and Trevor, closing in the gap quickly. As soon as he landed in front of them, blow after blow and kick after kick were exchanged in a fight for dominance.
    James, Greg, and Trevor battled for over an hour before Eli called a halt.
    By this time Baron, Jack, their mates, and Chelsea’s and Ace’s parents, were watching from the back porch. The noise had caught their attention and brought them out.
    When Baron called the three of them to the center of the yard, Ace, Eli, and Trevor went right into battle. Ace wasn’t taking the training serious at first until his father and James yelled for him to. The battle went on for an hour as well with James yelling different moves for Ace to use that James learned on the police force and out on the field.
    Before Chelsea’s battle could begin against Charity and Jadelyn, James and Ace had already started taunting, teasing, and making bets against her. It just made Chelsea want to prove them wrong and fight harder, like they wanted her to.
    “Why are the two of you teasing her about quitting before the battle began?” Greg asked.
    “If you tell Chelsea she can’t do something, she performs even better than she was going to, trying to prove you wrong,” James answered.
    From all the back and forth letter writing James knew how Chelsea was. She would write to him telling him how she had to prove Ace wrong about something he thought she couldn’t do since she refused to at first. Ace would write him about the same thing telling him how he tricked Chelsea into doing something.
    Ace, Trevor, and Eli all nodded their heads in agreement with James.
    Charity was the first to move in the battle; she dropped low and tried to sweep her feet under Chelsea’s. Chelsea did a back flip to avoid being swept to the ground by Charity’s feet. Without warning, Chelsea flipped back over and landed directly behind them. By the time Charity turned around Chelsea had already did a spinning