Trevor pressed the turbo button on his car, causing a light spark of fire to zing out of his pipes.
His car took off faster than the speed of light, knocking the passengers onto their headrests.
“I need to add some speed to my bike like that,” James said with a chuckle, as he climbed onto his trike while watching Trevor’s car take off.
“Ha, you’re too old for something like that,” Chelsea said as she climbed onto her side.
“Do you know traveling that fast in a nice car is every man’s dream?” James said as he shook his head and took off toward the school.
***
The school blended in with the woods so well it was going to be hard to find it if you weren’t supposed to. As they got closer to the school, Chelsea noticed her family had made different types of shifter statues out of glass and placed them in the front.
Chelsea and her mates looked up in time to see five school buses coming through the trees. At first, it was only supposed to be one bus with Rose driving and three Enforcers on the bus with her and the pups. That was before Chelsea’s, Ace’s, Eli’s, and Greg’s parents volunteered to help as well. They said since they were going to be stepping back in order for them to take on their new titles, they needed something else to occupy their time since they were not ready to fully retire yet. Each bus went to a different shifter side of the Isle and picked up a different species of shifter.
Chelsea smiled when she saw a red haired child around seven run down the stairs of the wolf shifter bus and over to the lion shifter bus. The child started jumping from one leg to the other until a blonde haired child dashed off the lion shifter bus. She ran straight for the redheaded child and leaped into her arms knocking them both to the ground. Before Chelsea knew it, a bear shifter child around the same age ran over to them squealing the entire way there. She jumped on top of the lion and wolf shifter children as they all rolled around laughing. Chelsea continued to watch as the girls linked arms together and skipped toward her. Chelsea, Ace, and James looked down at the smiling faces of the three little girls.
“We wanted to say thank you for putting this school together, so I could go to school with my two best friends. At first we only got to see each other on the weekends, but now we can see each other every day,” the red haired wolf shifter pup said.
“Okay, if all three of you promise to do your work, I will put you in the same class,” Chelsea said.
“We promise,” the small voices sang in unison.
Ace waved his mothers over to them. “Girls, these are my mothers and they will be your teachers. How about you three take both my mothers to get twenty-seven more different shifters,” Ace said twenty-seven so there would be a total of thirty students and each of his mothers would only have fifteen students each.
“Chelsea, our twin brothers can be in your mother’s class and help them pick their students,” the lion shifter pup said as she pointed at the male versions of herself and the twin to each of her friends as they wrestled in the grass.
Chelsea nodded her head at the little girls, letting them know it was okay with her. She could tell they didn’t want to be in the same class as their brothers. Chelsea liked the new rules they had come up with when they learned their parents wanted to be a part of the changes of the Isle. Now only the upper level students who came in the afternoon would have different teachers and classes. The lower level students would have the same teachers all day and have certain extracurricular activities on different days and times.
When everyone had their fifteen students, they all lined up with the teachers in front of the students. Ace was in the front of the huge line while Chelsea was in the middle and James was in the back of the line. All the rest of the teachers were scattered throughout the line with their students.
Ace opened the door for the decoy school and led everyone through it. James scanned the outside area making sure no one was left behind before closing and locking the door of the decoy school. Ace led them down the long hallway, down the stairs, and through a coded steel door. Through the steel door was a tunnel leading to the real school, which was made of glass.
The students were mesmerized at how they could look outside through the walls and not just the windows. The only room made of steel was the bathroom and basement. They had a basement made of reinforcement steel to protect the pups just in case they had an attack.
Ace walked them down a long hallway on the first floor. There were no classrooms on the first floor, just glass lockers on either side of the wall. The glass for the lockers were so thick no one could see threw them. Ace assigned the lower level pups the lockers on the right and showed them how to use them. The pups loved opening them since they were voice activated.
After giving them some time to get acquainted with the lockers, Ace led them upstairs where the classrooms were. Each teacher’s name was engraved on the side of his or her classroom doorframe. The teachers stepped out of line with their students as they passed the classroom with their names on it.
James, Ace, and Chelsea’s classroom was the last classroom at the end of the hall and the largest one in the building since they had forty-five students all together. Their classroom was separated into three equal parts, one for each of them and their fifteen students.
James, Ace, and Chelsea were bringing their students together for story time when they heard yelling coming down the hallway. Chelsea ushered all their students into the panic room in their classroom with the Enforcer who was guarding their classroom. When Ace and his mates made it to the middle of the hallway, they could see Serenity running toward them.
“Mom, what is wrong?” Chelsea asked.
“The students were in the middle of tracing their letters when one student disappeared into thin air. I ran and tried to catch him before he fully disappeared when I noticed what was happening but couldn’t get a full grasp on him,” Serenity said with a worried look on her face.
Chelsea and her mates didn’t know what was going on, especially since their students’ parents were the only ones who knew the other school was a decoy school. They knew if the shifters behind everything else were trying to kidnap a student then they would have come up empty handed. None of them knew how the boy disappeared, but they were going to find out.
Ace was just about to say something when the three male children from earlier ran out of the classroom.
“We have something to tell you,” the blonde haired male lion cub said.
“You know you guys can tell us anything,” Ace said when he saw the three little male shifters looking at each other in concern.
“When Miss Serenity and Faith were writing at the chalkboard, we heard Sean talking and no one was around him. He was saying, ‘no mom and dad, I don’t want to go home with you, I want to stay at school, leave me alone.’ He kept saying, ‘let me go, no, leave me alone,’ but he was whispering it,” the brown haired bear cub said.
One of the other boys raised his hand until Ace told him it was okay to speak. “I heard a man and lady saying, ‘we don’t care what you want. We do not want you at this school with all these different kind of shifters and if we kidnap you and make it look like someone else did, everyone will think the school is unsafe and pull their pups out of there.’”
“What does that mean?” the red haired male wolf pup asked.
“How do you know what was said if you guys couldn’t see them?” Chelsea regretted asking when she saw the look on the little one’s faces.
“My brother and I have a power and he thinks people would think we are crazy if we tell them about it, but I don’t care. I can see dead shifters and shifters who are alive but in their spirit form. My brother can talk to them and hear them, but he can’t see them. I can see them, but I can’t talk to them. Sorry, I am out of my class, but my brother called me through his head,” the red haired pup from earlier said, with her friends standing right behind them.
James walked over to the red haired girl’s twin since he was looking dow
n at the floor. “What is your name?”
“Christophe and my sister name is Christina,” Christophe answered.
“Christophe, never be ashamed of you power. I wish I had your power so I can talk to my mom and dad. Just because your power is different doesn’t mean it is wrong. You and your sister have a rare special gift of power and don’t let anyone tell you different,” James said.
“I told you, Christophe,” Christina said.
“Your mom and dad are behind you and your sister, Mr. James,” Christina said.
“Katarina and Zuri said they are proud of you and your sister. They followed their destiny and now it is time for you and your sister to do the same,” Christophe said.
Charity and James felt a cool chill run up their spines when Christina and Christophe told them that.
One of the Enforcers quickly approached them, he was in the shadows listening to everything for a while. He didn’t know how his Alphas and Betas would take what he had to say, but he had to tell them. “I have to tell all of you something. Sean is my nephew and he lives with my mate and me. His parents have the power to sense him wherever he is and kidnaps him a lot. He usually escapes when he can since we do not have legal custody of him and he comes back to our house after a couple of days.
“Neither my sister nor her mate are stable, thinking every shifter should be with their own species and not interact with the other. They also torture my nephew, I have to get him back now. I am sorry I have to leave my post now,” the Enforcer said after Faith and Serenity ushered the kids into their classroom.
“You have my permission to leave your post and I will even grant you custody of your nephew. You cannot leave unless you take some of the Enforcers with you for help,” Baron said as he point to the six Enforcers he wanted him to take with them.
“The IPPD will also meet you all there and take your sister and her mate to jail,” James answered, always thinking like a cop.
The Enforcer nodded his thanks and ran down the hall to find his nephew before his parents hurt him with the six Enforcers Baron sent with him for backup.
Two hours later, school for the lower level kids was finished. Chelsea and her mates had sent a letter home with all the students detailing what happened but without names. Tate was also calling all the parents on the phone as a follow-up.
When the five buses pulled up with the upper level kids, they did something different this time. The Enforcers had gone to pick them up alone and all the teachers were standing in the front of the decoy school with their first period students’ names listed on a big board in front of them. The students found their names and lined up in front of their teachers.
Ace made an announcement before they went in. “I would like to welcome you all to the new Isle of Paradise School. Where every type of shifter is welcome. First rule of the school is you have to meet or invite a different kind of shifter species into your group of friends. Even if you have a lion shifter friend and you are a wolf, invite a bear or hyena into your group. This school is for not only learning but accepting everyone for who they are.
“First on today’s agenda, you will have a tour of the real school not the decoy school. You will also get your class schedule in your first period class and there will be no homework for the first week,” Ace said.
The upper level students followed Ace into school in the same manner the lower level pups did a few hours ago. This time they didn’t have a problem during or after school.
***
There were three wolf shifters, two males and one female, standing outside in front of the Alpha’s house when Chelsea and the group arrived home a few hours later after locking up the school.
Chelsea and her mates were on high alert when the three shifters made their way toward them. Just from the look in their eyes, they knew they were up to no good. Eli, Trevor, Greg, and their mates, along with Tate, all stood behind Chelsea and her mates.
“Chelsea, Ace, and James, we challenge you for the title of First Beta. The battle will be tomorrow afternoon at the battle arena,” the tallest male shifter said before all three of them turned and left.
Chelsea rolled her eyes, she was tired of everyone challenging them. She was pissed and headed straight for their room instead of the kitchen with everyone else.
James and Ace could hear Chelsea as she stomped her way up the stairs. They knew when she had made it to their room from the sound of the door slamming shut. James and Ace quickly scooped all three of them some of the stew Chelsea had put on this morning before they left and grabbed a bottle of white wine.
Chelsea was sitting on the bed in her robe when they walked in. She was about to go soak in the Jacuzzi when they walked in, but the aroma of the food they brought in made her change her mind quickly. When Chelsea got a large enough sniff of the stew her stomach growled causing her to remember she hadn’t eaten since breakfast.
“Since you guys brought me dinner and the wine I will let both of you soak with me in the Jacuzzi,” Chelsea said after they were finished with dinner.
James and Ace looked back and forth at each other and then chuckled as they made their way to the Jacuzzi directly behind Chelsea. From how hard she was walking into the bathroom they could tell she was pissed from being challenged once more. By the time Ace and James had disrobed Chelsea was already in the Jacuzzi with her eyes closed. The water swooshed a little bit when Ace and James entered at the same time.
“You two know what would make me feel better?” Chelsea asked with a smile on her face and her eyes still closed.
“What?” James and Ace asked before they seated themselves in tub. They wanted to make their mate happy and release the tension they could see was building up in her body.
Watching you two together,” Chelsea answered as she lifted a tube of lube in the air, opened her eyes, and winked at them.
Ace looked over at James with a heated look in his eyes as they roamed over James’s well-muscled body. Ace ran his hands down, running them across James’s defined tone abs, and groaned.
James was getting hot and bothered from the heated look in Ace’s eyes. He grabbed Ace by the hair, pulling Ace in close to him. He leaned down and nipped softly at Ace’s lips with his teeth.
“Give me entrance,” James groaned out as he ground his pelvis into Ace’s, making their cocks come into contact, causing them both to groan.
“Take all of me,” Ace whispered as he opened his mouth and closed his eyes. He had been waiting for his other mate to take him for some time now, glad the time had finally surfaced.
James bit Ace’s bottom lip and licked it to sooth away the sting. Ace moaned as he deepened the kiss, thrashing his tongue in to receive the full effect of the taste of Ace. One he would always remember. The kiss became rough and hard, like Ace’s mouth held everything he had been searching for. Ace reached up and pinched his nipples as he sucked Ace’s tongue hard, causing both Ace and he to moan.
James felt as though his body was alive for the first time, needing Ace to touch so he could make sure it was real. It all felt like a dream come true to him. Ace reached between them, grasping his now hard cock, stroking him.
“Fuck, that feels good, harder, baby,” he moaned out as Ace continued to stroke him with one hand while pinching his left nipple with the other.
James couldn’t take it anymore. He had to be inside of Ace—soon. He had finally found those sparks he was searching for and they were igniting through every part of his body. He reached over and grabbed the lube from Chelsea before grabbing Ace’s hips and turning him around. Happy that Chelsea had already uncapped the lube for him. Coating his fingers with lube, he then ran he fingers between Ace’s ass cheeks, stopping at his puckered hole, and slowly rubbed around the rim. He felt the shiver run through Ace’s body and then his body relaxed, waiting for the intrusion. He pushed as gently as possible with one finger, into Ace’s tight hole, needing to be inside his mate but not wanting to hurt him by being too rough. Within the first few strokes, Ac
e moaned, he knew he had found Ace’s special spot. Adding another finger, he began to brush the spot over and over, then scissoring his fingers to prepare Ace’s for his large cock.
“Bend a little and brace yourself, ‘cause I don’t know how gentle I can be. I want you bad, my lion and wolf are clawing to the surface,” James grounded out between clenched teeth. He was at his limit of patience. He needed his mate.
“Pull those fingers out and give me your cock. I need you to fuck me harder, James,” Ace groaned out as he pushed his ass back onto James’s fingers.
That was all the motivation James needed, pulling his fingers out and placing his cock into position, he pushed the head of his cock past Ace’s tight ring of muscle. He held himself in check, giving Ace time to adjust to the larger size of his cock from the slimness of his fingers.
“Dammit, James, move,” Ace grounded out.
In one powerful thrust, James pushed in to the hilt, then pulled back, leaving only the tip before he slammed back in to Ace. James moaned from Ace’s passage walls contracting on his cock as Ace groaned from the feeling of fullness James’s cock provided.
Chelsea moaned as she watched her mates and thought it was so sexy. Just watching her mates together made her pussy ache and set her body on fire. She knew she had to put her fire out as she felt a new pool of wetness surface. Chelsea palmed her breast with one hand and let the other travel down her stomach to her pussy. She inserted one finger into her dripping opening, taking her thumb, finding her now swollen bud, and rubbing, as she watched James slowly pushing his cock into Ace.
They could smell Chelsea’s arousal as they both groaned from James hitting Ace’s rough spot in his passage repeatedly. Neither wanting to stop because the feeling was so intense.
“Damn, man, you feel so good I don’t think I can hold back much longer,” James said as he pulled back, only to immediately drill back into Ace. He couldn’t remember ever feeling this way, on the few times, he had taken another male, now knowing everyone was right when they told him how different it was with your true mates.
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