Hagen, Lynn - Torem [Zeus's Pack 4] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting ManLove) (4 page)

“Are you kidding?” Sidney asked as he waved his hands in a frantic motion in front of his body. “I want to have mind-boggling sex. I thought mates were supposed to do that?” He bounced around.

Torem ran his hand over the stubble on his jaw. “I think if we had sex right now, I’d have to peel you off of the ceiling. Go take a hot shower. It might help relax you.” Torem stood in the middle of the bedroom and watched Sid open every drawer, rummaging through them and then walking to the closet and searching through that as well.

He still couldn’t figure out what the hell his mate was looking for. Sidney had done the same thing in the truck. Instead of questioning him this time, Torem let it go. He allowed his mate to explore his new home.

Sidney, finally, after twenty minutes of going through his personal items, wandered into the bathroom. Torem heard the shower start and shook his head, shoving the clothes back into the drawers, and closing them. He closed the closet, telling himself he’d deal with the mess in there after he’d gotten a good night’s sleep.

Or day, seeing how it was early morning now.

Torem stripped down to his boxer briefs and crawled into bed, luxuriating at the feel of the soft mattress beneath his weary bones, as his eyes started to close.

His eyes immediately popped open when his mate jumped on the bed. “I’m not in the least bit tired. What is there to do around here?”

Torem growled and pulled Sid down and shoved the blanket over his exuberant mate. “Sleeping, that’s what there is to do. Try it, you just might like it.”

Sidney fidgeted around for at least ten minutes. Finally Torem gave up and removed his arm from around his mate.

“Go explore, just remember which bedroom is ours. And be careful of the vampire.”

Sidney whipped his head around, his eyes wide. “Is there really a vampire here?” his mate asked with excitement lacing his voice.

“Yes, and he’s a really nice guy,” Torem mumbled tiredly.

Sidney pumped his arm in the air. “That is so damn cool.”

“There are humans, too. They already know we’re shifters. I’m just making you aware of it.” He yawned again.

“No biggie, no biggie. I have no problems with humans. They’re cool.”

Torem’s eyes followed Sidney as his mate walked out of the bedroom door. “Lord help everyone in this house. Here comes Sidney on a sugar rush.”

* * * *

Jasper, Toby, Minsheng, Yasuko, and Craig watched an extremely hyper man practically race into the living room, bouncing around, and chatting away to himself.

“So, which one of you is the vampire?”

Jasper had no clue who the hell this quirky man was. “We buried him in the backyard before sunrise. Who the hell are you?”

The guy laughed. “My name is Sidney, but Torem likes to call me Sid. Chey calls me Sidney though. I’m Torem’s mate.”

Toby pulled from Jasper’s arms and greeted Sid. “I’m Toby, Jasper’s mate, and Zeus’s.”

Sid looked at Toby, astonished. “No fricken’ way, man. You have two mates? That rocks.”

Toby looked bewildered at Sid. “Yeah, so do you. Don’t you?”

Sidney bounced around in place as he shook his head. “Nope, all I have is Torem.”

Minsheng groaned next to Jasper. “More mates. How many going to come?”

Sidney grinned and walked over to Minsheng. Jasper had an urge to warn the new guy…but didn’t.

“You are a cute little human.”

Minsheng growled and hopped up from the couch, kicking Sid in his shin. “I not cute and I not little. Take words back.”

Jasper jumped up and grabbed Minsheng, pushing him toward the door. “Why don’t you go find Rave? You seem to like to harass him the most.”

Minsheng glared at Jasper and then stomped away, Yasuko following quickly behind him.

“What the heck is wrong with that little dude?” Sid asked as he rubbed his abused leg.

“He missed his Flintstone vitamin this morning.” Jasper walked closer to Sid. “You’re a shifter, aren’t you?”

Sid began to bounce around again, looking around the living room. “This is so cool. It’s a nice setup you got here.”

Jasper noticed how Torem’s mate dodged the question. If he didn’t want to answer, Jasper wasn’t going to press him.

“Yeah, it’s cool here,” Craig said. “But we mostly hang out down at Theo’s. There are more people to mingle with and the music’s pretty cool. And Theo makes the best food. Okay, maybe not Theo, but it’s still good.” Craig chuckled.

Jasper watched Torem’s mate closely. There was something very different about him. He just couldn’t put his finger on it. “So, you’re mated to the sour mood Torem?”

“I don’t know about sour. He seemed pretty nice the whole trip here, especially when we were getting shot at.”

“Shot at!” Craig gasped. “How the hell were you getting shot at?”

“
Looong
story,” Sid said. “Anyone want to shoot some pool? Does anyone know where at bingo hall is? I’m hungry. Is there a kitchen here?”

Jasper’s head spun at the rapidly fired questions. Did the guy focus on one subject for more than a millisecond? “The kitchen is down the hall. You’re welcomed to anything in there. I’m really not sure about a bingo hall. I haven’t heard of one around here, and maybe later we can shoot a game. Toby and I have things to do in town.”

“Speaking of which,” Craig piped up. “I need to get to work.”

Jasper watched as Craig left the living room.

“Well, welcome to your new home, enjoy exploring it.” Jasper grabbed Toby’s hand, getting as quickly away from the hyper man as possible.

There was just something about Sidney that niggled at him, and Jasper
would
figure it out.

Chapter Three

Sidney couldn’t believe how quickly he cleared the room. He placed his hand in front of his mouth and blew out his breath. His breath didn’t stink, so that wasn’t it.

Sidney couldn’t understand what he had said or done to make everybody run. He decided to take Jasper up on his offer and go find the kitchen. His feet skidded to a halt on the wood floors when Sidney saw the largest man he’d ever laid eyes on sitting at the kitchen table eating the biggest bowl of cereal he had ever seen.

The man’s spoon stopped midway between bowl and mouth and stared at him. Sidney felt like a deer caught in headlights and too afraid to move.
No sudden
movements,
his brain warned him.
Maybe the giant hasn’t seen you yet.

The guy set his spoon back into the bowl and sat back, watching him intently. “Are you Torem’s brother?”

“Uh,
nooo
, I’m Torem’s mate, Sidney.”

The brown skin around the man’s eyes crinkled as he smiled and then began to chuckle. “No shit, my Beta has mated. Go figure.”

Sidney walked into the room, feeling a little more comfortable, and sat down at the table with the man. “Why does everyone seem so surprised about Torem finding his mate?”

“It’s a long story.” The guy chuckled again.

Gee, those words sounded familiar to Sidney. “I’ve got all day.”

“I’m Zeus, the Alpha of the house.”

Sidney smiled. “I’m Sidney, mate to the Beta of the house.”

“That you are.” The Alpha grinned.

Sidney had no clue what to say, so he got up and started opening drawers and cabinets, the fridge and freezer was next. He had no clue what he was looking for, but he’d know when he’d found it.

Zeus stood, taking his bowl to the sink and rinsing it out, placing it in the dishwasher. Sidney thought his neck would snap as he tilted his head back to look up at the Alpha. He thought he was tall at six one, but the man had him beat hands down. And good lord, could the guy be any more massive?

Sidney had an urge to grab a chair and pull it up to the guy and pat him on his bald head. That wouldn’t be one of the sanest things to do, Sidney thought.

Feeling the need to get away before he did something stupid, Sidney walked across the room, ready to get back to Torem, when the Alpha stopped him. “Did you forget something?”

Sidney looked at him and wondered what he could have forgotten. The Alpha chucked a thumb over his shoulder. “All the drawers and cabinets, the fridge and freezer are still hanging open. Maybe it would be a good idea to close them all before you left.”

Sidney looked around the massive guy to see he was right. He crossed the room and closed everything up and then went back to Torem’s bedroom.

Counting bedroom doors on his way back to Torem’s room—that was the only way he remembered—Sidney pushed open the sixth door on the right side of the hall.

The room was pitch black. Sidney knew this couldn’t be right. It was light from the early morning in Torem’s room when he had left, now there was none? Sidney had to have the wrong room.

Sidney gulped when he heard a hiss. He spun around to run from the room but slammed into the door, accidently shutting it closed instead.

A small light glowed, and Sidney spun around to see someone had turned a lamp on. That’s when he saw a tall man with dark hair roll over on top of a shorter one, a protective move. The largest of the three swung out of bed with agility. He had black hair to his shoulders and very green eyes that narrowed on him.

Sidney saw that the man was naked seconds before the guy shifted into a wolf, advancing menacingly toward him.

Oh shit, this was
not
Torem’s bedroom. “I’m Sidney, Torem’s mate. I’m in the wrong room,” he threw out, hoping that saved his ass. He wasn’t sure it would work though. The way everyone acted about Torem mating, that may have been the wrong thing to say. Maybe Sidney should have introduced himself as Torem’s brother’s best friend.

The wolf shifted back to his human form, and Sidney’s balls unclenched. The man standing in front of him didn’t look like he played around and Sidney wasn’t into having his ass handed to him.

The guy grabbed a pillow from the bed and covered it over his groin. “His bedroom is the next on down on the right,” he growled.

Sidney nodded absently, his eyes darting over to the man with long black hair that still lay on the bed, looking at him with narrowed black eyes. That must be the vampire, or it might be the one tucked under him.

Sidney reached behind him and turned the handle, quickly scrambling from the room. Once he cleared the door, he leaned against the hallway wall with his hand over his erratically beating heart.

“That was too damn close. I need a Red Bull.” Sidney panted as he walked one more door down and then turned around, opening Chey’s door, peeking in on him.

Sidney found his best friend sleeping like the dead. Closing the door quietly, he crept back across the hall.

This time, Sidney opened the door and popped his head in. When he saw Torem fast asleep, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked into the bedroom, closing the door behind him.

Sidney stopped when he got to the end of the bed and watched his mate sleep. His fingers ran over the smooth wood of the footboard, as he finally got a good look at his handsome mate. That five o’clock shadow was a big turn-on, and Sidney wondered how it would feel scraping across his skin.

Just the thought of Torem touching him had Sidney’s cock jerking.

Sidney pushed his shirt aside and skimmed his fingers across his erect nipple. Oh hell, he was standing here touching himself while he watched his mate sleep. How perverted was that?