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“Let me go,” I said as we pulled out and trundled down the road, smoke still gently bellowing out from under the hood.
“Piper, we care about you,” Rook said haltingly. “We—want to take you back to the Palace and start over and do things right this time.”
If this was all because of my perfume, I’d make sure they got a lungful of what they could never have and I tossed my ponytail over my shoulder, knowing it would spread my scent all through the enclosed space.
“I’m not going to make it easy for you,” I warned. “I do not accept this fated mate shit.”
CHAPTER19
Teddy
Rook’s eyes meet mine in the mirror and I know what he’s asking me to do.
Rook is not very good with emotion, and Erain is kind of a haughty jackass until you get to know him, so that leaves me as the charming one. Now that we’re all calmed down, he wants me to soothe Piper’s feelings, we’ll all apologize, and she’ll see that we mean it this time. We want her as our Omega.
So I scoot forward in my chair until I’m next to her and I take a deep breath of her scent.
God, she smells fucking delicious. My mouth is already watering. I can’t remember anything like this before, this hunger and craving for a woman.
I wipe the drool from my face before I embarrass myself, and I shift so the hard cock in my pants isn’t digging into the back of her seat. All it takes is a tiny wisp, a merest breath of her scent, and I’m hard as a rock.
“Piper, your scent is so beautiful,” I began.
“It is,” she agreed, looking out the window as we rolled past the outskirts of town.
This wasn’t a promising start, but I pressed on.
“You’re the best thing I’ve ever smelled in my life.”
“I bet,” she said.
I wasn’t exactly sure where to go from here. Ideally at this point she would have been blushing and smiling at my compliments.
That’s what always happened with the Betas I had complimented. There was no effort required. I began to feel a creeping dread.
“This—what has happened, was regrettable,” I said earnestly, smiling as wide as I could in her direction, the dimples popping out in my cheeks. “I am so sorry. It will never happen again, and I—we, of course, would like to start fresh.”
I could hear Erain wheezing beside me, the breath rattling out of his lungs.
But Piper barely looked at me as she pulled out a nail file from her purse and held out her hand with its long, fluorescent pink nails in front of her.
“I’m sure you would,” she said. “Because you’re thinking with your gross little knots now, you revolting perverts. I’m not interested.”
I felt an intake of breath in the car.
“It’s not just our knots,” Rook said. “We want to know you and cherish you in all the ways an Omega should be cherished.”
“Ha,” Piper said. “If you want tocherishsomeone, Rook, go find Beatrice. I’m sure she would love to becherishedwith your penis.I’mnot interested.”
“What do you mean?” I asked anxiously, feeling my normally deep Alpha voice crack.
“I mean I reject this mate bond,” Piper said off-handedly. “You were all right. It was a mistake. You must’ve all had the flu at the same time. What a comical misunderstanding. Now drop me off at the nearest hotel and move along. We’ll go our separate ways. Best of luck finding your future mate.”
I can see Rook’s hands gripping the steering wheel so hard his knuckles are white.
“Weare your fated mates,” he ground out. “It is undeniable. Your scent, Piper, it—does things to me I’ve never felt before.”
“Me too,” I hastened to say, and I could hear Erain agreeing eagerly beside me.
