Page 47 of Knot Excused
Oh my god, my wolf wanted her so badly.Iwanted her so badly.
I could feel myself practically start to shift already, the hairs on my arms standing up.
I drove the urge down ruthlessly. There were a lot of campaign events coming up and I couldn’t be shifting in the middle of them. That was the equivalent to going around in my boxer shorts or with my dick out.
We were pretty much a shoo-in to win. What other Pack had the kind of clout we did? Not to mention, my celebrity status was a huge boon.
Not that it helped me one inch with Piper.
“Soon this fever will break and Teddy will be able to spend more time with you,” Piper assured Zoey and Chloe, putting an arm around both of them.
“I’d love that!” gushed Zoey.
“It’s not happening,” I practically snarled, feeling the prickly hot anxiety break out all over my neck.
“Stop coming around,” I told the two women. “There is zero chance of me ever wanting to have sex with you again.”
“Are you saying I cannot have what friends I choose?” Piper demanded, putting an arm around both of them and pulling Zoey and Chloe firmly inside and shutting the door on me.
I was left outside to wallow in my misery and jealousy and drool.
But when I saw my Pack again I at least had another idea.
“We need to move out of the Palace,” I said firmly.
“What do you mean?” Rook frowned.
“I mean Piper obviously doesn’t want to live in the Palace.”
“How can we figure out where she wants to live when she’ll barely talk to us?” Erain asked.
“Well, let’s pool together what we know about her.”
“I think she would prefer a. . .wilder location,” Rook said thoughtfully. “Something less urban. Maybe even in the forest.”
“Where could we find a house nearherein the forest?” Erain demanded.
Rook smiled.
“It’ll take a bit of money, but with some. . .persuasion I think we can find the perfect location.”
Days passed as we sketched out and meticulously planned our new home and the nest we hoped to bring Piper into.
I learned things about her scrap by scrap, in a brutal daily grind where I had to face the rejection of my mate over and over again.
Each new thing I learned about Piper made me bitterly regret my decision to cheat more than ever.
Listening to her on the phone once gave me the information that she loved going to the gym and had gone 7 days a week at her old hometown.
My stomach sunk with the realization that if I’d been faithful we might have been going to the gym together every day, laughing and joking together like she did when she took a walk with Mary.
It wasn’t just her cats Poppy, Iris, and Bluebell she loved, but all animals, and I thought painfully of how perfectly suited we were.
I had to hope we were making progress or I would have gone completely mad.
But Piper said all she wanted was for us to let her leave and she wouldn’t admit anything else.
We were now in the habit of taking Piper her coffee in the mornings, which had expanded to bringing Piper, Otis, Mary, and the entire grounds crew of our secret new home coffee, doughnuts and the fanciest pastries we could find.
