Page 29 of Knot Excused
My throat was dry and raspy even as drool streamed down my face, pooling on my collar.
“I am so sorry, Piper,” Rook said again, his chest heaving. “I take full responsibility for what I did and for what they did, too. I was a colossal asshole and what we did was disgusting and wrong. You don’t have to forgive us now, but please, open the gates and let us in so we can take you back to the Palace. I promise we will do everything we can to make this right.”
Piper walked a few steps closer, now she was so close that I was only inches away from being able to touch her.
Even though it burned, I pressed myself into the silver-coated bars of the gate, feeling the sting and hiss of the metal on my skin.
It was a white-hot pain, but a few inches closer and I could touch her.
Just a few inches. . .
My whole body craved that touch, needed her proximity.
“I’m so sorry, Piper,” Teddy echoed. “It didn’t mean anything. I’ll never do it again.”
My lips and throat were so parched and dry from wanting her that I could only croak out, “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
“Please, let us protect you,” Rook added.
My god, I had never seen him apologize like this. Never. Not even when he was firmly and totally in the wrong.
“Nah, I don’t think I will,” Piper said dismissively, and I had to fight the urge to howl in dismay, drive down my ancestral Alpha instincts that wanted to hurl themselves painfully against the bars over and over until they broke to get to my Omega.
“You boys have just gotten your pickles tickled by my scent, and I couldn’t give less of a shit. This is just pure biology, nothing more. You don’t really care about me.”
I pressed harder into the bars, horrified to realize I was extending my hands toward her in supplication.
“Please,” I said, and my ears were ringing so hard with need that I didn’t know if I was whispering or roaring. “Please, I’m so sorry.”
“Piper, scenting you is the way of Alphas and Omegas,” Rook said. “It means we have claimed you and you are ours.”
“Well, it isalsothe way for an Omega to have this Enclave to protect herself against feral Alphas, and the way Erain’s dick is pressed between the bars looks pretty feral to me.”
Rook looked over furiously, and I could feel my cheeks flush in embarrassment.
“We are not feral. Your scent is—doing things to us.”
With my eyes glued to Piper’s face, I saw her pink lips curve up. Something Rook had said had pleased her, but a shiver went through me as her cold eyes flicked by me again.
“I smell Beta,” Teddy interrupted. “Is someone in there with you?”
“Beta?” Piper says scornfully. “You smellAlpha. I’ve got my Head Alpha back here.”
“Iam your Head Alpha,” Rook growled, and I can hear the possessive note clawing through his usual cold, precise tones.
I need to say something too, remind her that I am her Alpha, too.
But I’m too busy trying to keep the most embarrassing pleas and whimpers from spilling from my lips.
My cock is uncontrollably hard in my pants.
I urge it silently to go fucking down, but it will not. Her scent is too intoxicating to me.
I adjusted uncomfortably.
“I don’t think so,” Piper said. “You see,myHead Alpha would never go fuck another woman on our wedding night.”
Rook’s whole body bows at this, like he’s been sucker-punched in the gut.
