Untamable (25 page)

What the crap? Sidda narrowed her eyes at Dane. She was not a Diana, and he’d better get used to it. He put the phone on his desk then pointed at a chair.

“Have a seat. We have things to discuss.” He leaned back in his large chair, eyes roaming over her. “You really did turn out nice. No wonder Stephan is so protective and Gandillion is willing to die for you.”

Bile rose in her throat. Sidda had never hated anyone with the passion she hated this thing in front of her. How he’d managed to take over the Luna nation was beyond her. No. She mentally shook her head. She knew how. He’d hidden behind others, let them die, and then taken over.

“My name is Sidda, not Diana.”

“In public, you will be Diana Velham. End of discussion.”

Sidda rolled her eyes but didn’t comment. She had other things to fight for. She would let him call her Diana in public. Maybe Dane’s mother had actually been halfway good.

“Whatever. Look I just came up here to ask you a few questions. First, why did you get rid of me to begin with?”

Dane swiveled in his chair. His eyes focused on a large safe near the door. Sidda sat waiting for him to answer her, but instead he turned his back on her, one thing no Alpha should ever do. She wanted him dead, and it took every ounce of her being not to make a move to kill the arrogant bastard.

Dane spun back around, smiling. “The day I made the order to have you dealt with you’d shown no signs of anything special. I’d only gotten one Blue Moon at the time, and you were the first offspring. Mistakenly, I cast you out, not knowing what I was really looking for. I regret that, but when my men spotted you with Gandillion, I knew you were mine and spectacular. I’ve got you, and we can move forward.”

Sidda narrowed her eyes. Move forward as what? Dane Velham was an evil prick, and there was no way she wanted any type of relationship with him. Freak.

“What exactly do you mean by ‘move forward?’”

“Simple. You break the bond with Gandillion, mate with Stephan, and we take over the other Luna nations.” His lips turned into a dark quirk of evilness.

“Then what?” Sidda had a good guess of what would happen once he got control over that many Lunas,. He’d try to take over the humans. But Sidda knew the human race wouldn’t go down without a fight.

“One step at a time. Now this afternoon, I’ll release Stephan, who will be put under a close watch. I don’t know if your presence here is helping or hurting, but it won’t matter after Saturday. I’ll have what I want.”

Not if she and Jasper had anything to do with it.

“Whatever you say,” she muttered. “Anyhow, look, I need to talk to Scarlett. Is there any way you’ll let me visit with her?” Sidda hated having to nearly beg to see the woman, but like her mother always said, you caught more flies with honey than vinegar.

Dane cocked his head to the side. “What on earth would you want to see that weak bitch for? If it weren’t for the kid, I wouldn’t have kept her, but he trains better with his mother around.” He shook his head. “I sorely wish I’d kept you, then I wouldn’t have those two weaklings. Yet those weaklings will keep you in line because, believe me, the first time you screw me over, I’ll torture them both until you beg me to stop.” Dane waved a hand at her, dismissing her completely. “Brockton, show Siddalee to the female quarters.” He turned back to the papers on his desk.

Sidda burned to scream at him to go to hell, but she knew without a doubt he’d torture her brothers.

A rough hand gripped her arm, snatching her toward the hallway. “Come on,” a tall blond man with harsh brown eyes grumbled.

Sidda snatched her arm away.

He stopped and sneered at her. “I don’t give a damn what Velham says, or Stephan. You test me, and I’ll beat your fucking face in. Now move.” He shoved her, but Sidda reared back. “Touch me and I’ll make sure that little shit of a brother of yours ends up like the others.” A smile spread across his face when she gasped.

Sidda instantly hated this dickhead . “Why don’t you take your threats a little higher and stop hiding behind children. Be a man, or are you just a coward?” Sidda waited for the punch, waited for retaliation, but instead, he laughed.

“I’ve been wanting to kill that little bastard for years, and now I get to. Thank you.” Without further comment, he turned to walk away.

Silently, Sidda screamed in anger. She’d hoped to provoke Brockton into bragging about what he’d done with the others, but he hadn’t. Instead, she’d put a mark on Zeke’s back and would have to watch Brockton to make sure he didn’t really follow through with the threat.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Brockton’s sulfur smell poured down the hallway to her. She hated having to follow behind him. Then the long hallway ended in front of two cherry doors. Brockton turned the brass doorknob, and two heads turned in his direction. Scarlett rose from her chair with her head bowed in submission. Anger roared within Sidda. Her damn mother was cowering to a fuckhead like Brockton? She stepped to his side just inside the room.

“You see at least one bitch around here knows her place,” Brockton whispered in Sidda’s ear.

She spun around, kneeing him in the balls before giving him the ghetto ass-kicking of the year. When he fell to the ground on his knees, she jerked his head forward with her hands and brought her knee up to his face. Warm, wet blood splattered on her pants leg just above her knee. Jasper had wanted her to go take self defense classes at some gym. “Bitch,” Brockton grunted.

“You’re goddamn right. Now get the hell out of here before I do it again. Why don’t you run and tell my daddy? Maybe he can control me better.” Sidda smiled sweetly at him before he jerked out of the doorway, and she slammed the door in his surprised face.

Sidda shook her head. She shouldn’t have let him goad her into the fight. She focused on Russ, praying he’d hear her mental call. A zap of power hit her. Damn, the kid really needed to focus on a sneak approach.

“
Sidda?”

Sidda smiled and rolled her eyes. Who else would it be?
“Watch Zeke. I let Brockton goad me into a fight with him, which I won, but he’ll no doubt try to come after Zeke now. Stick to his side while I’m talking to your mother. I’ll find y’all in a little bit, all right?”

A long pause met her before Russ’s power slithered through her.
“All right, but be careful. Brockton won’t come after us, not now that you’ve shown him how powerful you are. He’ll go after you to prove he’s stronger.”

That idea worked better for her. First, before she dealt with Brockton, she had to talk to her mother and Delilah to see just what her powers were without the added Alpha strength of Jasper.

“Sidda?” Delilah’s strong feminine voice floated through the air.

Sidda turned back to her and sighed. What had she just started with Brockton?

“You may have angered him, but it’s damn good to see him put in
his
place.” Delilah smiled brightly.

Sidda chewed on her bottom lip. “Well, I hope you’re right. He threatened to do the same to Zeke as he did to the others. I’m not sure which others he meant, but believe me, it doesn’t sound pleasant.”

Scarlett flopped back down in the chair she’d been sitting in. “It won’t matter. By the time he has a chance, we’ll be gone. Maybe he’ll even be dead.” Her eyes filled with tears. “I hope so.”

“Easy, Scar,” Delilah said softly. “Now, Sidda, come on over here and sit down. I have a strong feeling you need some answers plus a little advice.” She smiled warmly.

Sidda nodded, then sat down on the cognac-colored leather sofa. “I do have questions. I’d like to sit down and ask a hundred questions about my birth, me being thrown out, what the hell has happened over the years, but to be honest, all of that has to wait. Well, at least my personal stuff has to wait. For now, I’ve got questions about my powers.”

Scarlett wiped her eyes, pulling herself together as Delilah sat straighter. Scarlett cleared her throat. “What is it that you need to know?”

Sidda glanced at Delilah, hoping she’d understand what she’d done to Jasper. A smile spread across Delilah’s face. “Oh, honey, if you only knew the things I did to Jasper’s father before we settled into a mated pair. Even after he’d marked me and we’d bonded.”

Sidda shook her head. “It’s a little more complicated. Stephan showed up the other afternoon to tell me Jasper had marked another woman, my half sister I never knew existed. Well, to say I was pissed is an understatement so I kinda hit him.”

“Kinda?” Scarlett smiled.

“Well, maybe I knocked him on his ass, but he deserved it. He stopped calling me a few months back then shows up here to claim me as his mate. Then after I find out I’m a wolf, Stephan tells me Jasper had marked Vivian. Well, Jasper tied me to the bed.” Sidda’s face burned with embarrassment. “I agreed to listen to him so he’d let me go, but got so mad I kneed him in the head, knocking him out. That’s when Vivian showed up, and I knocked her out too. My temper stays calm most of the time. I mean, yeah, I back talk, but mostly I don’t get mad enough to fight.”

Sidda shook her head. “But when I get mad, that’s it. I’m done, and someone is going to pay. Unfortunately, Jasper paid, and in my temper, I ran from him only to be forced here by Stephan. But I did find out I can use his Alpha energy against Jasper though. Somehow he can make me pass out. He’s done it twice, by the way, and kidnapped me afterward.” She quirked her eyebrows at Delilah. “Ms. Joy, the woman who raised him, tried her hardest, but it seems Jasper doesn’t understand women’s rights.”

Both Scarlett and Delilah laughed out loud. The musical sounds filled the air, lifting some of the tension. “Well, I’m glad y’all think it’s funny, because let me tell you, when I returned the favor, he was plenty pissed with me.”

“Of course, dear. He thinks he’s in charge of you. As your Alpha, he believes he can control you, which is absurd. No Alpha can truly control his mate. The only female strong enough to mate with an Alpha is an Alpha herself. And once bonded, the mated Alpha pair are nearly equals, and Jasper should remember that.”

Sidda slumped down on the sofa. “Well, he’s plenty pissed at me about me using his power against him, but he’s kinda agreed to back off until Saturday night.”

Scarlett cleared her throat. “What about Vivian? I caught a glimpse of her earlier.”

Anger seeped into Sidda’s veins. She still wasn’t entirely sure how she felt about her half-sister being around Jasper for so long while she’d been left behind. “From what I can tell, she’s fine. I don’t know, as Jasper never mentioned her. He stopped calling me a while back saying it hurt too bad not to be with me yet still hear my voice. Bullshit.” Sidda grimaced. She hadn’t meant to throw out her and Jasper’s business, but maybe his mother could help.

Delilah smiled. “As a child, Jasper was the most like his father. His father did things like that, thinking he was protecting me, then, when I’d stand up for myself, he’d completely panic, thinking I wasn’t strong enough or that he
had
to protect me. After he died and I was brought here, I’ve wondered many times if any of my boys survived and what they were like as men. Now I know, Jasper is his father’s son.”

Scarlett’s eyes filled with tears. “Jasper is looking out for you, but I saw how strong you are, how strong your powers are. I think it won’t take long before he sees it too.”

Sidda blew out a breath. She certainly hoped so. Knocking Jasper out had been fun at first, but she knew the more times she did it the madder he would get. Jasper wouldn’t forgive and forget about it so easily.

“I need to know if it’s just his power that I harness or if I can do that with any wolf.”

Scarlett cleared her throat. “My power is more along the lines of empathy like Zeke. From what you’re describing, it sounds like it’s you. I felt your calming when you were in the hall. I’d say you can use that as well as harness power from any wolf around to boost your power. Especially an Alpha.”

Sidda nodded absently. Dane was arrogant, that was going to be his downfall. He believed being Alpha made everyone bow to him, even Sidda. But she wouldn’t, not really. Instead she’d play the part of cowering wolf, while gaining as much information as she could. “Can an Alpha stop me? Jasper hasn’t tried yet. Both times I’ve done it to him he’s been taken by surprise. Now Velham knows I can do it. Do you ladies think it’s possible that I could use it against his wolf or even him?”