Chapter 29

"It's 4 a.m and I have to go" I whisper to Casper but he's already asleep. He doesn't answer me, he just snuggles in closer. I sigh in frustration—we were just talking twelve minutes ago. How does one fall asleep that fast? I try to carefully remove his hand that is wrapped around my waist but it doesn't bulge.

"Casper!" I whisper sternly. He doesn't bulge and I just want to push him off me. "Casper come onnnn", I start giving him light kisses on his lips and in no time, he's responding to them, fully awake.

"You could start waking me up like them more often" he murmurs.

I giggle and finally push him off me, untangling my limbs from his. "I really have to go"

"Are you going somewhere?" He sleepily  mumbles  while rubbing his eyes and yawning.

I stand up from the bed but he pulls me back "I'm going to see Dakota since I'm fully healed"

He skeptically raises a brow, "come on, it's been three days now. let me go", i say but he still looks unsure and now it's my turn to frown at him.

"I promise that it's okay and I'm alright. Trust me okay? " I assure him and he let's go of me.

"At least take Sebastian with you"

"I can go alone. I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Plus I think I've improved physically now"

"But you haven't slept properly"

"Three days is already enough and if it isn't, I will sleep during day" I say and kiss his cheek before walking to his door. I pause when my hand touches the door knob. "Casper?"

"Mhmmm?"

I turn around to see him watching me "what happened to mason?"

He frowns and pulls his brow together "why are you asking?" I noticed the anger and confusion that cane with that question.

"I just wanted to know if he got his punishment" he doesn't look convinced at my words but answers me.

"He is stripped of his alpha title and in jail for twelve years for sexual harassment, attacking an alpha's child and attempted murder"

"Why attempted murder?"

"He confessed to wanting to kill you and Javier the night he came" he tightened his jaw as he spoke. I felt terrible that I asked and walked over to him.

"Don't be mad. We're here with you now" I murmur as I kiss all over his face.

"I'm not mad" he grumbles but I know he is and kiss him on the lips finally, "please sleep" I tell him and leave his room.

The t.v in his sitting room was switched on with no sound playing and I switched it off before I left. I check Javier in his room and look around the room just in case something managed to get inside but I don't see anything. I run down the stairs of the quiet house to my room and enter before picking out leggings and sweatshirt. I take them in my hand before running out of the house and changing into my wolf.

I run for a long time and my mind goes around mason during the run. I needed to talk to him now and fast. As always I see Dakota in front of her cabin but this time she's—dancing? or is it training?

"What the fuck are you doing?" I whisper shout at her after I changed and dressed in the outfit I brought. I nearly lost my head if not for the fact that I dodge the leg swinging at me by a second. How does this old woman do it?

What the fuck?

She now has her upper body on the floor supported by her elbows and her lower body is 90 degrees in the air. She quickly stands straight and does the move again. It almost seems like she could break her spine with this move.

"I can smell Casper on you" she smiles after she stops whatever she was doing and pays attention to me. I sniff myself and I realize that I do smell exactly like Casper,my scent isn't as powerful.

"We've been together for the three days. I was on bed rest"

"And you're coming from his bed", she completes and I blush a little.

I shake my head at the thought of cute sleeping Casper "what was that?" I asked.

"That,my dear, is one of the ancient moves that were performed to please the moon goddess during former human sacrifices"

"It seemed more like a performance to offend the moon goddess" I murmur to my self.

"Watch your tongue" she warns and continues "It is a dance that I'm going to teach you. It's like learning an easier and more graceful way of fighting"

"Now?"

"We start whenever you want"

"I actually came right now to know if there was a way I could talk to Mason"

She raises a brow "unanswered questions?" She asked and I nod. "Oh, well then—follow me" she says and starts walking towards get cabin.

I follow her closely into her cabin that is only lit up with one lantern. She goes to her room while I wait outside the door and she returns with a small bowl of a substance.

"Star anise" I say when I sniff the bowl.

"You're getting better at this stuff" she says with a smug look.

I drink up the substance and she leads me back to the front of the cabin. We sit cross-legged in front of each other.

"What is going to happen?"

"Keep shut and find out", she murmurs back.

She shuts her eyes and I follow suite. I don't feel anything for a while and I almost wanted to ask Dakota if anything should happen now but then I feel it—that pulling sensation. It doesn't feel painful,it just feels like I'm floating somewhere. When I open my eyes next,I'm in a dark,smelly hallway.

No.

"Dakota where is this?"I scream but I don't get an answer. I look around me and I recognize this place as the dungeon of some sort. The only source of light were from the moon light through small cracks on the wall.

This must be where mason is being held. I walk for a bit and very soon, I start to see prisoners one by one and very soon I stop at Mason's cell. I walk forward and put my arms forward which pass through the cell bars and my body follows. Mason is at a corner, sitting down, the silver chains holding his arms up.

"Mason" I whisper and he doesn't reply.

"Mason" I say and it sounded so loud. I gasp and cover my mouth with my palms and look around to see if a guard heard but everywhere is still quiet.

He raises his head and looks at me. His eyes widen when he sees me, "Odetta is that you? What are you doing here?" He rushes then pauses and looks at me "how?"

"I didn't come to answer questions, I came to ask them" I say sternly.

He looks like he wanted to say more but he just nodded "you deserve all the answers you want, ask away"

I take a deep breath,there were a lot of questions running through my brain now but I stop and ask the first one.

"Why did you reject me?"

I hear him take a sharp intake of breath before he blows it out "don't lie to me Mason"

"I was made to do it"

"What do you mean made?"

"Alexa doesn't know of this but her father and my parents forced me to be Alexa's mate after her mate turned out yo be a vampire and they said that if I didn't do it, they would kill you"

"Why you?"

"Her father and my parents were very good friends and my parent recommended me to alpha Matt"

"I thought that your parents loved me"

"They were more in love with the idea of their son being an alpha and after my parents died and Alexa's father had gotten so old, I could've left her but I didn't because we already had the twins at that time"

"Did it hurt to reject me?"

He looked me in the eye "you have no idea"

Looking into his eyes, I expected to feel some sort of emotion towards him but I didn't feel anything, no spark, no love, no hurt—nothing. Not even sympathy.

"Why did you come to attack me that night?"

"Another threat", he sighed and hung his head low "you need to protect that little boy with you at all cost"

"Javier?"

He nods "him and please protect my children and Alexa. Please"

"Why? what happened?"

"Just do it. My little girls and Alexa need you more than ever"

I felt that pulling sensation again "no" I whisper to myself.

"Mason what is happening?"

"I can't tell you much—"His voice was getting fainter and fainter "—but they want to kill you—all of you" and that was the last thing that I heard before I felt myself in the real world.