“Is he well now?” Takeo asked, petting the sleeping man’s back.
“He’ll always have the memories. He’ll just be more at peace with them now. Better able to handle them. Take him to his bedroom, please. Kamiko needs rest. Stay with him, he shouldn’t wake alone.”
Takeo gently lifted the small man into his arms and bowed to Chey. “Thank you.” He turned, walking into the shadows and disappearing.
“You could have used the door,” Chey mumbled as he closed his eyes. He would see Kamiko’s memories until his body absorbed the energy and dispersed them, and then they would fade away, as if he never saw them in the first place. Why did there have to be a ying and yang to his gift? Chey wanted to scrub the images from his brain with a Brillo pad.
He prayed sleep took him soon so the sight of Kamiko being violated again and again would stop tormenting him.
* * * *
Dino looked over the plans on the makeshift table. Zeus had added a few more rooms, one being a small chapel. Dino would gladly build that room himself.
He scratched his thumbnail over his chin, wondering how Quinn was doing with Tristan. Mickey had agreed to move, but he wasn’t too happy about it.
“You look like you’re thinking too hard.” Torem kissed his temple as he and Sidney approached.
“Just thinking about Quinn and Tristan,” he admitted as he rolled up the prints. “You think maybe we should move them into the house where Tristan can be around other shifters?”
“I think that’s a great idea. But Tristan has to agree.” Sidney beamed at Dino. “Look at my man, all considerate and shit. You make me the happiest burrito around.”
“Has he been in those damn drinks again?” Dino asked Torem.
“Been dry for a few days now. That’s the real him. Scary, isn’t it?” Torem laughed as Sidney smacked his arm.
“I’m not an alcoholic, you know. It was a damn energy drink. Besides, I get to play bingo tonight.” Sidney pumped both arms in the air.
Dino would never figure out how a grown man could love the game so much. Sidney was definitely unique, in his own quirky sort of way.
Dino wouldn’t change him or Torem. He loved his men and the new life they gave to him, to his human world and his heart.
* * * *
Torem slipped through the bedroom door, balancing the tray of breakfast food in one hand and the steaming mug of coffee he was sipping on in the other. He sat the tray on the dresser and walked over to the bed, pulling the blanket back.
“Fuck.”
Sidney was lying between Dino’s legs, a large cock stuck in his mouth. He grinned up at Torem and shrugged. “Breakfast,” he said around Dino’s shaft.
“I brought you some, but that looks much better.” Torem tossed his robe onto the chair and pulled his underwear off. “So much better.”
He knelt behind Sidney and grabbed the lube that was conveniently lying on the mattress. “Had this planned, did ya?”
“Maybe.” Sidney slurped around Dino’s cock. Torem’s dick jerked at the sound.
“Little devil.” Torem slid his slicked fingers into Sidney’s ass.
“Fallen angel,” Dino corrected with a moan.
Fuck if his mates weren’t a balm to his soul. Chey may have taken the pain of the memories away, but his mates were the ones who were healing him.
“Ready, babe?”
Sidney stuck his ass in the air and wiggled it back and forth. Torem took a moment to stare down at his men. His insecurities vanished, and his heart swelled with love for the first time in his life. These two completed him, and Torem would forever be grateful that fate had given them to him.
* * * *
Zeus hung up the phone. “He wasn’t even aware his Beta was doing all of this.”
Sully and Eagle shook their heads. “How can an Alpha not know what his Beta is doing?” Eagle asked.
“Who knows? But he said he’s sending some of his men here to collect Remus’s thugs. They better catch them before we do. I’ll fucking kill them for what they did to Torem and Sidney.”
“Look on the bright side,” Sully said.
When he didn’t finish his thought, Zeus sat back in his chair and smiled. “And the bright side would be?”
Sully smiled and winked at Zeus. “I don’t have to wear a wig this time.”
THE END