Page 21 of Knot Excused
“You want to find our Omega smelling like puke?” I snarled.
When I’ve deemed the worst of the smell to be gone, we continued to follow Piper’s faint scent across the palace grounds.
Where was she going?
“Do you think she’d buy that we just got drunk somewhere?” Teddy asked.
I scoffed. “Piper is smart. And I don’t want to lie to our Omega.”
But my stomach drops thinking about having to confess to her, thinking about how we got fucking caught and how it was so stupid to think we could hide it.
“And it’s not a big deal,” Teddy insisted, running his hands nervously through his hair. “Because it wasn’t a big deal. Really. I don’t give a fuck about any of them.”
“She obviously knows what we all did,” I said irritably. “I just want to find her so we can make this right.”
But when we hit the little brook that ran through the palace grounds, her delicious perfume seemed to suddenly disappear.
“She wouldn’t have left without making sure those kittens were taken care of,” Teddy said positively. “She loves animals.”
We seemed to go in circles, and even Erain couldn’t pick up a clear scent.
He tore angrily at his hair.
“How the fuck did she disguise her scent so well? Is she that angry at us?”
There was a stiff and unpleasant silence as we contemplated our Omega.
“I think we misjudged her,” I said.
Idefinitelyhad.
“Let’s just follow her scent, and think about how we’re going to make this up to her.”
“Why is it so faint?” Erain said irritably.
He looked green around the gills.
“She can’t have been gone that long. Her scent should be much sharper than this.”
“Where is she going?” Teddy asked in frustration. “What is shedoing?”
“She’s running,” I said, and my voice sounded hollow. “She’s running away from us.”
“There could be feral Alphas out here,” Erain said.
“Not likely on the palace grounds,” I returned dryly, but inside my stomach was clenching with nerves.
“We need to find her to keep her safe.”
Erain looked sick to his stomach again when we finally traced her with many false starts and stops out to the edge of the property.
“So she’s definitely left,” he said bleakly.
“Let’s think,” I said. “She must know we’d come after her. She can’t be on the run with three kittens. Maybe she left the kittens with someone here.”
“Who?” asked Erain.
“Well, who are her friends here?”
