Iwoke up outside Piper’s room, with my eyes gritty and raw, to see Teddy rutting the ground in his sleep.
He was making low growling noises that made the hairs on the back of my neck rise in unease, his hips jerking violently back and forth.
“We have to tell Piper,” I hissed, shaking Rook awake. “If she doesn’t accept us as her mates soon, he’ll keep uncontrollably rutting, and go fucking feral.”
“No,” Rook said firmly. “She has to make a free and open choice. I don’t want to guilt her into it. But I agree that this is a dangerous situation. We need to bind ourselves with silver ropes so we can’t break free and accidentally hurt or bite her before she’s ready.”
I nodded my agreement.
Piper could not know unless she wanted to seek us out.
Teddy opened his eyes in a flash of lucidity.
“Don’t tell Piper,” he moaned. “Don’t. . . want her to worry or feel bad.”
“Right,” I said. “Let’s go.”
Rook and I gripped Teddy by each arm, and started dragging him quickly across the palace lawns.
It was agony going further away from Piper, and with my enhanced Alpha senses I couldfeelher turn over in her bed, engulfed by the wave of scent and desire that washed over me.
My skin broke out in a sweat and I had to grit my teeth to force my feet to move.
Rook’s jaw looked like it could crack walnuts.
My cock was hard as a rock and it started throbbing now, as her scent poured into every inch of me.
Then I was humping the fucking air, mindlessly rutting, and I couldn’t even stop myself.
Piper
I still put one foot in front of the other to force myself away from her, even though every primal instinct in my wolf brain wanted to go back and tear her door off the hinges.
I cried out as I came, rutting into my own pants and spilling pulse after pulse of cum down my own legs.
“Hurry,” was all Rook said. “I know where silver rope is and you can clean up in there.”
His Head Alpha scent was even stronger to me.
He stank like fear and panic.
He must be afraid we wouldn’t make it, that we would turn back.
We would not fail.
We entered the Palace, Rook guiding us down hallways that blurred together until we were in a spacious First Aid room.
Once there, he threw some towels at me.
“Clean the two of you up. I’ll get the ropes.”
There would always be silver ropes. You never knew when an Alpha might go feral and it was best to be prepared.
“Hurry,” I said urgently.
Teddy was tied up easily enough with me holding him down and Rook tying the ropes around him.
His eyes frightened me. There was drool leaking from both sides of his mouth and he whimpered at the feel of the silver singing through his clothes and on his bare skin.