“Zeus!” Chey yelled as they ran across the foyer. “Contain Torem. He’s having flashbacks.”
The Alpha stepped forward, shoving Dino behind him. “How?” Zeus thundered over Torem’s unearthly screams.
“He touched me. Now he’s reliving his pain in order to heal,” Chey shouted back as he ran behind the large shifter.
All four watched as Torem shifted into his wolf form and ran through the open door. This was a nightmare! “Come on, Dino. We have to catch him.” Sidney didn’t care what was going on. That was his mate and he was in pain. Neither heaven nor hell was going to stop him from helping Torem.
Zeus tossed his keys at Sidney. “Go after him. I’ll gather the men and follow. We’ll find him and bring him home, but think of your safety if he becomes a threat to you or Dino.”
All Sidney heard was blah, blah, blah. His vision had narrowed to Torem and finding him. “Did you see which way he took off?” he asked Dino as he ran around the trucks, hitting the fob to see which one was Zeus’s.
“Give me those.” Dino grabbed the ring of keys from Sidney’s hand and found the truck.
Holy shit, it had to be specially made for the Alpha. The damn thing was a monster truck. “Get in.”
Sidney was grateful for Dino taking charge. His brain was scattered, and he couldn’t think. He climbed up and nearly had to jump from the running board to get in. Dino started the thing and soon they were ripping down the back roads.
“What happened?” Dino asked as he picked up speed.
“You’re already wigging out about everything else. If I tell you, you’ll never want to be with us.” The thought of this construction worker sitting next to him and not being in his life physically hurt Sidney.
“I didn’t say I wasn’t going to be with you two. I said I need time to absorb all of this. Now tell me what happened, Sidney.”
Oh god, Sidney had to focus. Hearing his name on Dino’s lips made him forget what they were doing. He needed a fucking Red Bull. They always cleared his mind and helped him focus.
“Sidney, will you tell me what happened?” Dino asked in a gentler voice.
“My best friend Chey has this thing he can do. Well, he’s my brother technically since he was raised with my family. He’s Torem’s real brother though. I was kinda jealous when I found out—”
“Sidney, what happened tonight?”
“Chey touched Torem. Torem began to heal from the inside, started having flashbacks, and turned into a raving maniac. He chased us down the steps, and by the way, that was Chey screaming like a girl, not me—”
“Sidney,” Dino said in warning.
“Well, you know the rest. You were standing right there.” Geez, what did Dino want, a play-by-play account?
“What do you mean Chey had this thing? What thing?”
“You have to promise not to tell anyone.”
Dino gaped at him. Why did Sidney think the look was sexy? Now is not the time, focus. “Promise me.”
“Hell, I promise. Now tell me.”
“Chey is an Omega and can heal superficial wounds and deeper ones, the ones that affect your soul.”
“A spiritual healer?” Dino snorted, letting Sidney know he was a big nonbeliever.
This was not going well. “I guess you could say that. I never thought of it that way. He found out he could do it when—”
“Focus, Sidney. What did he do to Torem?”
“He hugged Chey, and now he’s reliving his past in order to heal from it.”
“Sounds like voodoo shit to me.”
“You can say what you want, but you saw him. He…Hey, is that him?” Sidney pointed to the field to their left. A Grey wolf was limping only ten feet from the road. Had Torem hurt himself?
Dino pulled the truck over and put it in park. “I want you to stay in the truck. If it isn’t him, then I don’t want you getting hurt.”
“And what are you, Superman? You’re human. That wolf will tear you to pieces if it isn’t Torem. I should go.” Sidney grabbed the door handle, not believing that Dino thought he could take on a shifter. The guy had to be nuts.
“No. You’re not going out there.” Dino grabbed Sidney and pulled him back. “I can handle him.”
* * * *
Dino got out of the truck and slowly approached the wolf, his hands down at his sides. He cautioned Sidney to stay back when the hardheaded man walked closer. If this wasn’t Torem, he didn’t want Sidney to get hurt.
A ripple of unease ran down Dino’s spine when the wolf gave no acknowledgement. He started backing away, his arms held out to stop the wolf from advancing toward Sidney.