Page 48 of Knot Excused
Today we walked over, our arms loaded with the usual coffee, then some lemon and thyme scones, as well as a few things we were desperate for our Omega to accept as presents to line her nest.
As we headed over Piper opened the door.
“Did you bring enough for my new Alphas?”
She was wearing nothing but a long T-shirt with some kind of athletic stripes on it.
It looked like a man’s shirt
I let out a long, low howl.
“Piper, we are your Alphas,” Rook said, walking quickly up the steps to Otis and Mary’s home.
“Not anymore,” Piper said cheerfully. “Now put some respect on Pack Darkfire.”
“Pack nothing,” Erain growled, charging through the door.
I leaped forward to grab for the back of his shirt and we fell through the door.
Everyone in the sitting room froze.
I recognized Mario with two other obvious Betas who looked just as chud-like as he was.
“Meet Rook, Erain, and Teddy,” Piper said. “My former Pack.”
With a snarl, Erain leaped at them, the telltale silvery sheen of an incipient change on his arms.
Then he shifted mid-air, all lean, feline silvery fur.
Rook grabbed at him, managing to get ahold of his leg as Erain gripped Mario’s neck with big paws.
Then I tripped over Erain and went face-first into the coffee table and when I had gotten out from under it, Rook was barking orders in his Alpha voice and restraining a chomping at the bit Erain. And Piper was standing between us and the Betas.
“Restrain your attack dog,” she said. “Or I swear to God I will never talk to you ever again in this life or the next.”
Erain shifted back and he was bent over on the ground in front of Piper.
“I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry.”
“They’re coming to visit,” Piper said off-handedly. “Until I figure out how to get out of this fated mate bond. I’ve put them up at the most expensive hotel in town, of course. I find myself with a lot of money I don’t know what to do with and what better than to spend it on my dear Mario, Ceseare, and Raffi?”
I felt Rook squeeze my arm significantly. Piper was testing us and we had to suppress our natural urges to murder these men.
And oh my god, was she testing us. Wherever we took Piper, they were there, too. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, full of stories about going to hometown bars with Piper and climbing water towers with Piper and making beer that exploded at the last minute, until we were all writhing with jealousy.
When would she believe we were sincere?
CHAPTER25
Piper
“Idon’t know about this,” I said. “I don’t really have any interest in football.”
I fished around in my purse for my cigarettes, but Teddy made a low howl of pain.
“Don’t smoke those, Piper, they’re not healthy for you. Look, I’ve bought all these different patches and things for you to try instead.”
He grinned at me, both dimples showing in his cheeks.
