Untamable (30 page)

Jasper nodded absently. A buzzing began in his mind, a small whisper of Sidda’s voice, then without warning, he saw her, smelled her, and could nearly feel her. She’d opened her mind and body to her Alpha.

Jasper’s feet weighed heavy as he trotted back to their room to try and speak with her in privacy. Once the door shut behind him, he sank on the bed, opening his mind to her. In response, she smiled through his Alpha link, and his world went right. All the trepidation of the last few days vanished with just one vision of her smile.

“Sidda?”

“Oh thank god. I was scared that after breaking the bond we wouldn’t have any link at all.”
Her mind’s voice cracked.

“I’m your Alpha. You will always be connected with me if you open your mind. Jesus, Sidda I miss you. Please tell me everything is going okay and tomorrow I can bring you home.”

“Tomorrow night I’ll be with you at home, I promise. But first, I’ve got news.”

“I don’t like it when you have news.”
Jasper cringed. News from Sidda usually had a catch.

“Yeah, and this one you’re really not going to like.”

“Sidda?”

“Dane is forcing me to be marked by either Stephan or Brockton at the party. He is going to make me mark them back. But I think I talked him out of letting Brockton touch me, and there’s something wrong between Dane and Brockton, so tomorrow before the party I’m going to push their buttons. I just need to know if I’m marked by Stephan what will happen.”

“I’ll kill the fucking bastard for touching you is what will happen.”
Jasper snarled. Anger whipped through him, pushing him closer to fury.

“Jasper, he doesn’t really want to. We’ve all been wrong about Stephan. Dane is controlling him and the other guards with more than just his powers. Dane’s brainwashed Stephan into thinking he has to do the things he does. Stephan wasn’t the one to kill those babies, it had to be Brockton. Russ and Zeke are going to work on finding that out what Dane has done to the guards .”

“Sidda, I don’t give a fuck who is doing what. No one has a right to touch my mate, no one.”
His growl echoed through his mind to hers and back. Yeah, he was beyond pissed.

“Jasper, listen. Since I’ve been here, my wolf has been silent. I can use my power, which by the way I’m very good at, but she’s not really there. I feel like I was before, but just still have my powers. I need you to ask Doc if it’s possible Dane could be weakening the wolves but keeping his guards’ strength. None of them have tried to harm me or our brothers’ but they follow Dane’s orders.”

If Dane was keeping Sidda and the other wolves down, it would weaken their strength. They wouldn’t shift, making them weaker than Jasper or Ivan, and very easy for Dane to control. Not to mention that with Sidda’s wolf suppressed again, it’d be harder for her to come into heat around Stephan or Brockton.

“Sidda, please don’t ask me to wait while some other wolf marks what is mine and only mine.”
He rubbed his hand across his jaw, fighting back his canines.

“Jasper Gandillion, I swear to you if you show up before the right time, I will use my power on you again. But this time I’ll knock your ass out for a month!”

“Sidda…”
He growled, hating that he couldn’t stop her.
“I will stop you from doing that again.”

“Oh really? Well, listen here, pup. I’m going to get our family out of here, and you are going to wait for the right time to rush in. Believe in us, Jasper. We can do this.”
She stayed silent for a second, which gave Jasper a moment to calm down. She was right, but damn, he hated his mate being in the position she had put herself in. She needed to be taught a lesson.

Soon he’d teach it to her.

“Keep flaunting that, and I will be forced to restrain you when I get you home.”

Her throaty laugh had his cock hard and aching.
“Oh, hon, I’m so looking forward to it. But first you’ll have to catch me. For now though, go find Doc and check that out for me. Either me or Russ will try to seep back into your perverted mind. By the way, when I get out of here, you will explain what the hell you were thinking about mounting me.”

“I’ll do more than explain, I’ll show you. I love you, Sidda, please be careful. I’ll reach you tonight. Stay open to me, understand?”

“I love you, too, but Russ is a strong reader, and personally, I’d like for him not to know everything I’m thinking, if you get me.”

“Stay open, babe. It comforts my beast and myself to know you’re safe. Please.”

“All right. Gotta go, love you.”

Shit, he’d wanted more time with her. With a sigh, he pulled himself from the bed to find Doc. Jasper rubbed his eyes, hoping his emotions stayed intact. The bedroom door slammed behind him. Down the hall, Ivan’s thick laughter flowed from the library. With one sniff of the air, Jasper knew instantly that Ms. Joy sat with him. Every instinct in Jasper screamed for him to rush her to safety, but then sanity won out. She’d beat him senseless if he interfered. Gritting his teeth, he strode out onto the back deck to find Doc watching the troops fight.

Doc straightened at Jasper’s presence. “Morning…” Doc’s eyes searched his. Jasper smiled, knowing Doc wasn’t entirely sure what to call him now.

“Jasper, Doc. Just call me Jasper. I have a feeling we’ll be more than Luna brothers soon.” Jasper nodded at Ms. Angela, who watched the pack training.

“We’ll see. What can I help with besides making sure they are all healthy?”

Jasper blew out a breath. “I spoke with Sidda. Our mate bond is gone, but she believes me to be her Alpha, so we are still connected through a pack bond. Thankfully my mind reading power enhances my Alpha power to link to my wolves. All the wolves who believe me to be their Alpha share a link with me which allows me to sense them, either as a hum of energy or, in Sidda’s case, a clear voice. I can sense her stronger because she is an Alpha female. ” Jasper hated the taste of that fact. “Sidda wants to know if Dane could have found a way to medically drown down a wolf, like what you did with her. She said his guards don’t respond like regular wolves, and she thinks he’s controlling them. She also mentioned, that since she’d been there, her wolf has stopped whispering, but she still has her power.”

Doc raised his eyebrows before glancing back at the training. “If I could figure out a way to keep Sidda’s wolf at bay all these years then I’m sure Dane could do something similar. He’s got some geniuses working for him. To be honest, if he’s found a way to do that, add it with his powers and he’d be able to wage war on humans easily.”

War against the humans is what Dane’s ultimate goal would be. But first he had to take control of all the worlds Lunas to do so. “If Sidda’s still got her powers, that means his guards will still have their strength, right?”

“Theoretically, but any time you suppress the shifting gene, you run the risk of taking the power away. For Dane to take away his guards’ power to shift is crazy.”

Crazy unless you have the most threatening wolves, the ones who under normal circumstances would challenge you. “Maybe. Sidda believes Dane has brainwashed Stephan, and that Brockton is the one who is responsible for most of the murders.”

Doc cocked his head to the side. “Stephan was about eleven when Dane took him from his parents. As I remember, Dane had talked the elders into giving Stephan to him as a show of loyalty.”

Jasper’s eyes narrowed. He’d never heard that version of Stephan’s story. “What? I thought he killed his parents and Dane took him in.”

“No, that’s what we were all told, but years ago, I treated Stephan’s pack Alpha. Dane saw Stephan’s potential and wanted him as he hadn’t gotten any heirs yet. He convinced the pack elders to start spreading rumors of Stephan being forest crazy. Soon the pack wanted him gone, and Stephan’s parents couldn’t stop it. The pack handed Stephan over to Dane. No telling what the boy was told over the years. But that doesn’t make up for the things he’s done.”

Jasper wanted to agree, he had to agree, otherwise the wolf he hated nearly as much as Dane would have his pity. He couldn’t show pity to any of Dane’s wolves. He certainly couldn’t show any pity to a wolf who was trying to take his mate.

“Sir?” Ivan marched toward him with his head lowered in respect. “I believe we are all paired up and ready to show you the results of our training.”

Jasper raised one eyebrow. “We? Last I heard you were working on Ms. Joy.”

Ivan grinned then quickly wiped the smile away. “Maybe a bit, she’s lovely. But the pack is ready for you.”

Ms. Joy could do whatever she wanted, and Ivan was decent. Right now he had an army of wolves to get ready for the upcoming day. Later Sidda would get him the inside details while Doc figured out what Dane used on his wolves. That secret could never be publicized. If it were, the entire Luna Nation was in trouble. Humans could use it against them and control them.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

“Dear, please stop pacing. If we are to train you, then we need to start. This pacing back and forth while chewing your nails to the quick is getting us nowhere. Now sit.” Delilah patted the seat next to her on the sofa.

Sidda glanced over at Russ and Zeke, who sat at the table with Scarlett. All three stared at her, waiting for her to sit. Sidda blew out a frustrated breath as she flopped down on the couch.

“I can’t believe Jasper hasn’t let me know what Doc has to say. He should have already found out something.”

Delilah smiled. “Well, dear, Jasper also has a small army of wolves to get going too. He is probably very stressed and busy right now. Let’s start with what we need to do before tomorrow night.”

Sidda knew that, but it damn sure didn’t help her any. She wanted to know exactly what was happening with Jasper and the pack. “I know. All right, let’s get this going before someone interrupts us.”

She sat up straight on the sofa. Her courage had began to fade slightly when she hadn’t heard from Jasper. She’d hoped he’d have given her information on the guards, but that didn’t matter. They would all be imprisoned or dead by tomorrow evening, but she still wanted to know what Dane had done to them. If it happened to be a drug, she wanted it destroyed, never to be used to control anyone again.

“Sid, me and Russ made a map of all the places we know that lead out of the house. And some places to hide we’ve found too.” Zeke held up a sheet of paper.

Sidda rose to stand in between his and Russ’s chairs. The drawing detailed nooks and crannies plus a few spots that would allow them to sneak out.

“All right, boys, these that lead to the woods,” Sidda pointed to two paths on the map, “how easy is it to get to these places?”

Russ chewed on his bottom lip and shrugged. “This one,” he ran a finger across one pencil mark, “leads through the kitchen to a small pantry that opens up toward the woods. It’s a utility entrance for groceries. The path from there to the wood-line is pretty open though.”

Zeke pointed to a second path. “This one leads to Father’s office, but the hidden door on the side wall opens to a tunnel. That tunnel goes all the way to the woods outside of the gates.”

Oh, that one sounded good. But it was located in Dane’s office, which was a huge problem.

“Can you get in Dane’s office without being noticed?”

Zeke nodded, but Scarlett shook her head. “Delilah and I will be well guarded. There’s no way Zeke and Russ can get us out without being noticed.”

Sidda grinned. “Oh, but that’s where you are wrong. I can still pull my calming powers to make the guards fall unconscious in a deep sleep if I open up to Jasper. I won’t be able to go with you all, so I need you to grab as many files from Dane’s office as you can. If you can get his laptop, I’ll need that too.”