Page 17 of Knot Excused
I wanted one last time. One tiny little rebellion against my fated mate.
But I shouldn’t have.Weshouldn’t have. Now we are going to have to go apologize to Piper. She’ll probably be pissed not knowing what happened to us. Hopefully, she’ll have been too tired from the reception to think about where we might be.
I yanked on my pants and pulled on my shirt. Try to at least make it look like I didn’t fuck another woman all night long.
“That was the last time,” I told Beatrice.
She rolled over in bed, letting the covers fall off so I could see the length of her slim legs and elegant, pink-tipped nipples. But I’m too irritated with myself to care this morning.
“Well, if you ever get bored of slumming it,” she teased, in a way that might have been funny last night, but just pisses me off now because I’m feeling guilty.
“Piper is my wife,” I said tightly. “I expect you to treat her with respect now.”
Ignoring her shocked face, I grabbed my tie and went out, trying to arrange it neatly and wondering how the fuck I was going to explain this.
So I was in no goddamn mood to see that Erain and Teddy were both still asleep. Teddy’s usual noisy snores could be heard all up and down the hallway.
I kicked in Erain’s door and found him entwined lovingly in bed with Cressida.
“Get up,” I ordered, slamming my fist into the frame of his bed. “We’ve got to go make our apologies to Piper now.”
When Erain only made a face, and moved slowly, I kicked the bed and added an Alpha bark.
“Get the fuck up! This was a mistake. You can’t do this any more.”
He got up, but when he went to give Cressida a kiss, I put a hand on his collar and dragged him away.
“Damn it,” he protested, shaking me off. “It’s not that big of a deal.”
But there was a growing fear in my gut that meant itwasa big deal. A very big deal.
Teddy was stirring by the time we made it to his room, rubbing his eyes and stretching in bed.
Of course, he was covered in a mound of tits and pussy and ass, but I kicked his bed frame, too.
“Get up, asshole. We have to figure out how to apologize to Piper for this.”
“We’re her fated mates,” said Teddy with a yawn. “She kind of has to accept our apology, doesn’t she?”
I reached down and grabbed him by the ear and dragged him past all the protesting women.
“Get your pants on,” I snarled, “and let’s get the hell up to her nest.”
But when we knocked on the door of her suite there was no answer.
I knocked again, my heart pounding.
“Maybe she’s gone to breakfast,” Teddy suggested, yawning and rubbing his eyes.
“Straighten your tie,” I said. “I don’t want you looking like you came from an orgy.”
“I did,” Teddy smirked, but he obeyed, Erain impatiently flicking his hands aside to help tie the tie.
Unease and anxiety pounded through my body and I tried the doorknob.
It wasn’t locked.
I opened the door and walked inside.
