Chapter 22

Although he expected some type of repercussion to come his way after his encounter with Oscar, Jasper wasn’t prepared for the chaos that ensued when half a dozen vampire guards burst into the room.  Acting upon instinct, he lept over the back of the sofa that he’d been resting on and scrambled to the far end of the room.  He was so preoccupied with escaping the grasps of the exceedingly fast vampires as they closed in on him that he failed to recognize that he was not only equally as fast as they were, but when he lept into the air, he really lept!  It wasn’t until they had him securely captured and were dragging him out of the room that their complaints about his strength and speed sank in.

His vampire captors weren’t the only ones who were both curious and concerned about his newly acquired traits as they assisted a wounded comrade along behind him.  Jasper was also worried.  He’d bitten one of the guards during the str