Chapter 25

By the time Sonja woke up, Asher and Declan were both in the room with them. Judging from the look on her face when she saw the two giant, naked men, Jordan was afraid her sister was ready to pass out again.

“Who the hell are they? Why are you all naked? Jordan, what the hell is going on?” Sonja asked, her evident confusion was expected. Only Asher and Declan knew how to handle it since they dealt with Jordan not all that long before.

Jordan was crouched down next to her. She brushed her sister’s long blonde hair back out of her face and looked into her pretty blue-green eyes. “Everything’s going to be okay now but you need to come with us. We have to get out of here, quickly.”

“What? No! You need to tell me what’s going on, Jordan. What was that thing that broke down my door?” Sonja was panicking. The white wolf that shattered the door was impossible to forget. It was terrifying and burned itself in her memory.

“That was me, honey. I shifted.” Jordan tried to comfort her sister in any way she could. She wanted her to understand that she’d now regained her ability to shift, and soon Sonja would have her own ability to do so too. It was just a matter of time, and everything would be sorted out.

“But— you couldn’t the night you mated with Jude.” She heard the low growl rumble from Asher’s chest.

“Jude wasn’t my true mate, Sonja. You were right about that, about waiting for your true soulmate. I’ve found him at last. This is Asher and Declan. Do you remember them at all?” Jordan asked, hoping that she had. She wanted her sister to remember, so badly but knew that this was probably not going to happen. They discussed what Sonja could remember before, and that Sonja believed it all to be dreams.

Sonja shook her head and pressed herself further into the wall. The poor thing looked terrified and had been through these same feelings herself not too long ago. Jordan only felt empathy for her sister.

“We have to go,” Asher said. Sonja glared at him and then at his brother who was looking at her with awe.

“Who is he to give orders and why is the other one looking at me like that?” Sonja whispered.

“Honey, I promise I’ll explain everything, but we really do have to go.” Sonja started to argue again. Asher flicked his head at his brother, and Declan moved in and scooped her up as if she weighed no more than a doll.

“Stop it! Put me down!” He threw her over his shoulder like a caveman and held her legs tightly to keep her from kicking him. That didn’t stop her from pounding her fists into his back, but he only seemed amused by it. She found her sister and yelled, “Jordan! Why are you letting them do this to me? What have they done to you?”

“It’s for your own good, Sonja. I promise.” The three of them, with Sonja in tow, moved quickly down the stairs. When Sonja saw Mamma Sable lying incapacitated on the floor, she began to kick and scream again, scratching at Declan’s back with her fingernails.

“Mamma Sable! What have you done to her? Jordan!” Jordan was trying to talk to her sister and get her to calm down, but Sonja wasn’t listening. She kept screaming Mamma Sable’s name. Declan didn’t pause; he kept going until they were out of the house and on the front porch. Once they were outside Declan sat her down and with his face only inches from hers he said, “I prefer you to keep your claws put away until we’re ready to mate. It’s hard for me to concentrate when you’re digging them into my back. That’s something best reserved for when I have my cock buried deep inside of my mate.”

“You’re what?” The shock was evident in Sonja’s words.

“You heard me,” Declan said.

“How dare you?” Sonja said, but her voice was shaky, and her face was flushed. She wasn’t as brave as she was trying to sound, and her sister could tell by the way she was looking at Declan it wasn’t all fear either. Declan only smiled and said, “Would you like to walk now or am I going to have to carry you all the way back to the plane?”

“I can walk!” She spat at him. Meanwhile, Jordan was surveying the carnage. At least ten of Lennox’s men lay dead around the yard and meadow. Cyprus and Sage waited for them at the edge of the clearing, but she didn’t see Micah. She looked at Asher.

“Micah didn’t make it.” They made their way over to Cyprus and the others. Cyprus had his eyes trained on Sonja, and she was looking at him, suspiciously.

“Sonja,” he said with a smile. “You’ve grown up as lovely as I knew you would.”

“Who are you?” Sonja felt nervous, overwhelmed by it all. Another new face meant another person that could have been against her. It was all too much to take in.

Cyprus didn’t look fazed by her rude tone. “I’m your Alpha,” he assured her.

“No! Lennox is the Alpha,” she looked at Jordan and said, “And Jude is second in command. He’s out of his mind looking for you Jordan.”

“No honey. He’s known where I have been all along. He was out of his mind because he knew that he wouldn’t live if he tried to come get me. They knew I would come back for you though and they thought they could take both of us again.”

Sonja closed her eyes and shook her head. She finally yelled, “What do you mean, again? What the fuck is going on?”

Cyprus took her arm and said, “We will explain it all in due time, Sonja. Now, we have to go.”

He didn’t raise his voice, but even Sonja understood from his tone that was going to be the final word on the subject. She pulled her arm away from him, but Cyprus only looked amused. She let Jordan take her arm as they walked through the deep brush. The walk back to the airplane was a lot longer on two legs.

Once they were all on the plane, Jordan looked at Asher and asked, “Were Jude and Lennox there?”

Asher snorted. “I didn’t see either of them. It seems the pack was sent in to fight while the ‘Alpha’ and his cub stayed tucked away safely somewhere.”

“He’s afraid of losing his bloodline. We have to be ready for a counter-attack,” Cyprus said. “He will be back, and it will be with a vengeance.”

Asher put his arm around Jordan, and she snuggled into it. Poor Sonja was looking at her like she’d lost her mind and she was sitting as far away from Declan as she possibly could. He hadn’t taken his eyes off of her. Jordan felt for her sister, but she wasn’t worried. Just like she had, Sonja would come to understand what had happened to them and that they were finally where they belonged.