“I can barely feel the bond but it is there,” Alek said.
“We need to follow him!” Dario declared.
“Yes!” Wylder climbed to his feet with the help of Alek. That was what he’d been trying to do.
Dario rose to his feet. He was dressed in a suit and tie. Had probably been at some important meeting or something. Nothing was more important than their little shifter.
“Open a portal,” Wylder told Mitch.
“Wait.” Alek squeezed his shoulder. “We need to make a plan.”
Fuck that! They could make a plan later or— “The plan is to follow Theo wherever he is and bring him back home.”
“It’s not that simple,” Mitch replied with a grimace. “Alek is correct. Theo could be miles away from where he was summoned to. Or in the hands of someone expecting us to come to him. We can’t go after him and put all of us in the hands of the unseelie.”
“I don’t care.” Wylder stomped to his demon warrior mate. “You can open a portal, so take us to Theo.”
“I don’t know where he is,” Mitch said quietly.
“I thought you could portal to us! That’s what you said. You said if we needed you, then you could get to us!” Wylder couldn’t help the way his voice rose. This was about saving Theo.
Dario was wringing his hands as he paced. Why was he not backing Wylder up here?
“I need to call my fathers,” Alek said as he pulled out his phone.
“Fuck that! You can call them later. We need to get to Theo!” Was he the only one that cared? They had to know how scared Theo would be right now.
“Wylder.” Mitch grasped Wylder’s shoulders and forced him to turn. “I know you want to go now but we must take precautions. Make a plan.”
“I’ll go by myself!” Wylder declared. “Open me a portal and I’ll go.”
“Not yet.” Mitch squeezed his shoulders.
“What do you mean not yet?” Wylder glanced from Mitch to Dario to Alek and then Josh. Too much time was passing. “We’re wasting time.”
“That’s another concern,” Mitch said, giving him a small shake. “Time works differently in the fae realm than it does here.”
Wylder shook his head hard, forcing himself to swallow down a whimper. He needed his sweet little shifter mate. They needed to go now. Just go. They could figure things out once they got to the fae realm.
“Listen to me.” Mitch lowered his voice, making it hard for Wylder to hear.
“I am.” They were the ones that weren’t listening to him. Theo. Theo. Theo. Wylder needed to protect his mate. Theo was all alone. He shouldn’t be alone.
“Wylder, I can’t sense Theo,” Mitch said quietly. “I can feel and scent the magic used but I can’t…feel him.”
Wylder’s knees went weak. Luckily Mitch was there to hold him up. “Is…is he…”
“He’s still alive.” Mitch placed his hand over Wylder’s heart. “If you weren’t so upset, you would be able to feel the bond is still in place. Like Alek said before, the bond is faint but there. That means that he is either far away from us or magic is blocking him. Neither is good.”
“Please!” Wylder fisted his hand in Mitch’s black T-shirt. No, he couldn’t feel the bond. Wylder couldn’t feel anything except the cold grip of fear that had a hold of his heart.
“We will get him back,” Mitch told him. “You have to trust us.”
“But—” They should always be able to find each other. Wasn’t that the entire purpose of their bond? Wylder should have asked more questions. Or read those damn journals with Theo. Theo had just been so obsessed with the journals and they had made him happy. Wylder had wanted Theo to have that.
“We are going to find him.” Mitch said the words like a promise.
Dario wrapped Wylder up from behind. “We are going to find him.”
