Page 87 of Knot A Chance

Bennett kissed the top of my head. “I can’t wait to go back to our bed either.”

Bennett’s phone buzzed and I saw an incoming message from Wyatt.

Wyatt: If you’re done growling at everyone who comes within ten feet of your new mate, we really need to talk about Ryder and the case.

I showed the message to Bennett. “Do you think you’re done growling?”

“No,” he grumbled. “I’m pretty sure I won’t be until I’ve claimed you properly.”

“Ah, your body wants to fuck me, but your overprotective brain can’t even fathom it when I’m still in the hospital, am I right?”

Bennett scowled at me. “Do I mock your omega instincts?”

“My omega instincts are adorable. Your alpha instincts are ridiculous.” I smiled, full of love for this man.

Bennett laughed and scented my neck, softly kissing Ryder’s faded bonding mark. I appreciated that he’d chosen to bite me on the other side. It was nice to allow the past to coexist with my future, and now that Ryder’s mark was a faded scar, I didn’t mind it so much. He’d been a part of me at one time, and just because he wasn’t the person for me, didn’t mean I wanted to forget him. Though I wish he hadn’t tainted my memory of our time together even more with his actions recently.

I handed the phone to Bennett. “Just tell Wyatt to meet us at the house tomorrow evening. Maybe if you’re in our home and surrounded by our scents, your instincts will calm down a bit.”

Bennett quickly typed out a response and tossed the phone onto the tray. “We’ll see, but don’t get your hopes up.”

“I love your grumbly ass,” I said, snuggling into his bare chest again. I licked his nipple and giggled at his sharp breath. “This bond is fantastic. I just felt the jolt of arousal in your cock in my own cock.”

“The sex is going to be even better than before,” Bennett said.

“I don’t know how that’s possible, but I can’t wait.” I looked up at him and gave him a soft kiss. “Bennett, I’m really glad you claimed me.”

We hadn’t talked about what had happened to me before I’d landed in the hospital yet. I only wanted to do it once, which meant doing it in front of Wyatt, and until today, I hadn’t felt strong enough to get through the whole story in one sitting anyway. But I remembered everything, even more than I realized, and there were things I needed to share with Wyatt and Bennett tomorrow.

He scratched my scalp gently as he gazed lovingly at me. “I don’t know how to get over it. I don’t regret it. You’re here and you’re okay and if Ryder had gotten his way, I don’t know if this is where we’d be right now. But you’ve only ever asked one thing of me, Felix, and I can’t help feeling like I failed you.”

I pushed myself up and cupped his face. “I saw Ryder twice in the last few weeks, and the only reason I reached out to him was because I wanted to spare him the pain of our bond breaking when I asked you to claim me. I was going to ask you. I should have asked you. I should have told you what I was doing and then you wouldn’t have had any doubt about what I wanted. I didn’t want you to worry and I didn’t want Ryder to change his mind if he saw you. Turns out he did that anyway.” I gave Bennett a hard kiss and wiped away a tear trailing down his cheek. “No more tears, babe. We have each other. Dr. Tanaka said I’m going to make a full recovery. And I don’t want you to have any regrets. I heard you. I heard everything you said before you bit me. I put all my strength into squeezing your hand so that you’d feel my choice. I would choose you a hundred times over, Bennett. In this life and in the next. You are my alpha and I am yours. Forever.”

Bennett crashed his lips to mine. “Forever, handsome. Forever.”

Bennett helped me out of his truck the next afternoon, holding me up as he placed my crutches under my armpits. “You okay, handsome?”

“Yes.” I kissed his cheek. “For the thirteenth time since we left the hospital. I’m fine. I’m not too cold. I’m not too hot. I don’t have a headache. I don’t need a wheelchair and I don’t—”

“I get it,” he said, glaring at me. “I will shut up.”

“You won’t.” I chuckled, kissing him again and scenting his neck.

He put his arm around my upper back and walked with me into the house.

He opened the front door and groaned loudly as we both scented the spiced vanilla in the air. “I told you to come tonight, Wyatt,” Bennett grumbled.

Benny came sprinting to the door and jumped up against Bennett’s legs. Bennett reached down to pet him while I rolled my eyes.

I’m the injured one, Benny. Right here. And I’m basically chopped liver because I don’t command you to behave. Ridiculous.

Wyatt sat in a chair in the living room and looked over his shoulder at us. “And I told you—both of you—that we need to talk about this now. If you were anyone else, you’d never have gotten this much leeway from me. There have been a few developments, and I need Felix’s official statement.”

“Well, you can wait until I get him comfortable first,” Bennett said. He walked me over to the couch and took my crutches from me. “Are you hungry, handsome?”

“Yes, but I can wait until after Wyatt leaves,” I said.

“No. Let me heat you up some soup. Oakley said she put some in the fridge. Wyatt can wait ten minutes.” Bennett gave him a stern look.