Page 66 of Knot Excused
Piper
I love you
CHAPTER33
Piper
Iwoke up with the taste of the forest under my tongue, the smell of stone and wood and my Omega nest, and the feel of Rook, Erain, and Teddy on my skin.
My hands hovered over my suppressants.
Their effectiveness was already hanging on for dear life, but if I took them I could resist the scents of my Alphas for another day. I’d be warm, run a low temp, perhaps even get hot as fuck, but I wouldn’t go intoheat.
However, I pushed the suppressants away.
I couldn’t deny it any longer.
Time to face the facts.
I’d forgiven my Alphas.
Shit, no one was more shocked than me, but they’d crawled their way right into my heart despite their disgusting behavior.
I was meant to meet them for after-breakfast coffee, so I ate a reflective bowl of cereal and by the time I was done, prickly heat had begun to break out all over my chest, back, and hips.
Oh, hell, that didn’t take long.
I had half a mind to find Otis and beg him for a triple dose, but now I just wanted relief.
Every part of my body was heating up, including the swollen, aching place between my legs that was now begging for relief from my heat.
I walked over to the Palace with sweat pouring down my back, and the closer I got, the stronger their scents got, until they were all swirling together in my nostrils, my throat burning with need for Alpha knots.
My Pack wasn’t at the breakfast nook where we usually ate, but I had no trouble tracing their scents down the hallways until I stopped outside what looked like a First Aid station.
I didn’t know what they could be doing in there, but my heat had burst upon me with such urgent necessity that I didn’t care. Otis was right—the suppressants only delayed my heat, because once it finally came, I was feeling positively feral to be knotted.
However, luckily for me there were three Alphas I knew who would be happy to oblige.
I opened the door without preamble but, unlike my wedding night, I found something very different but equally as shocking.
Rook, Erain, and Teddy were lying on the floor trussed up like chickens, painful ropes of pure silver criss-crossed over their bodies and cutting painfully into their flesh.
My heart stuttered wildly in my chest.
Silver was the only thing that could control them if they went feral.
“Stop lying about, you lazy bums,” I said sharply to cover up the catch in my throat at the sight of them.
Rook’s eyes were closed in concentration, while Erain’s ropes were tied so tight I could see the scour marks on his face. Teddy lay between them, a tendon throbbing uncontrollably in his arm at the way the silver would send shocks of pain through his body. He was muttered to himself and twitching.
Well, fucking hell.
They were going tokillthemselves trying to keep me safe.
But I didn’t want to be safe. I wanted a knot. I wanted all their knots. And I was going to get them.
And here I was without scissors or anything.
