diff --git a/FlyingSocks/Sources/AsyncSocket.swift b/FlyingSocks/Sources/AsyncSocket.swift
index 8d235e9..032096f 100644
--- a/FlyingSocks/Sources/AsyncSocket.swift
+++ b/FlyingSocks/Sources/AsyncSocket.swift
@@ -123,9 +123,14 @@ public struct AsyncSocket: Sendable {
                                  timeout: TimeInterval = 5) async throws -> Self {
         try await withThrowingTimeout(seconds: timeout) {
             let socket = try Socket(domain: Int32(type(of: address).family), type: .stream)
-            let asyncSocket = try AsyncSocket(socket: socket, pool: pool)
-            try await asyncSocket.connect(to: address)
-            return asyncSocket
+            do {
+                let asyncSocket = try AsyncSocket(socket: socket, pool: pool)
+                try await asyncSocket.connect(to: address)
+                return asyncSocket
+            } catch {
+                try? socket.close()
+                throw error
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -134,7 +139,12 @@ public struct AsyncSocket: Sendable {
         try await pool.loopUntilReady(for: .connection, on: socket) {
             let file = try socket.accept().file
             let socket = Socket(file: file)
-            return try AsyncSocket(socket: socket, pool: pool)
+            do {
+                return try AsyncSocket(socket: socket, pool: pool)
+            } catch {
+                try? socket.close()
+                throw error
+            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/FlyingSocks/Tests/AsyncSocketTests.swift b/FlyingSocks/Tests/AsyncSocketTests.swift
index d8fe883..1237457 100644
--- a/FlyingSocks/Tests/AsyncSocketTests.swift
+++ b/FlyingSocks/Tests/AsyncSocketTests.swift
@@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ struct AsyncSocketTests {
         try await task.value
     }
 
+    @Test
+    func connected_ThrowsError_WhenConnectFails() async throws {
+        await #expect(throws: SocketError.self) {
+            _ = try await AsyncSocket.connected(
+                to: sockaddr_un.unix(path: "/nonexistent/\(UUID().uuidString)"),
+                pool: DisconnectedPool()
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test(.disabled("problematic test as file descriptor can be re-opened by another parallel test"))
     func socketReadByte_ThrowsDisconnected_WhenSocketIsClosed() async throws {
         let s1 = try await AsyncSocket.make()