“What’s actually going on, Teddy?” Suki leaned in and whispered, “Is it Patty?”
It wasn’tnotPatty, but it wasn’t exactly her either… What was it?
“Maybe I wasn’t ready to get railed.” I shrugged, and Suki snorted.
“Yeah, okay. You wouldn’t have gotten that far without practice.” She held my hand and looked up at me from her kneeling position on the floor. “Is it her pheromones?”
“It’s—” I almost said no, but now that she mentioned it… “Fuck. I know what it is.” I didn’t elaborate and even covered Suki’s mouth when she tried to ask me to. “Tea first, then to your house. Mine is contaminated.” I gave a grimacing smile because I fucked up. I fucked up so bad.
SEVEN
Suki
Teddy wouldn’t answer any of my questions on the drive, but I couldn’t blame her. She was doing everything in her power to not throw up all over the inside of my car.
Once we pulled into the driveway, she threw open the door and puked on the grass.
“What the fuck is going on, Teddy?” I couldn’t think of a single thing that would cause this minus food poisoning and pregnancy, but I ate everything she did and felt fine, and twelve hours was laughable to have morning sickness.
But now that I thought about it, we didn’t use protection. I would ask about it but after I figured out what was going on with her.
She groaned and stood up straight. Her face was pale, and her lips were turned down into a frown. “The bastard I got the pheromones from left a little present in them. I’m sure of it.”
“What?” What could he have possibly put in there that would fuck with her and not me?
“He’s an asshole. I blackmailed him to get the goods, and honestly, I should have seen this coming, but I was blinded by getting what I wanted, and yadda yadda, here we are.” Sheflipped her hands in the air like she was batting away unwanted thoughts and rolled her eyes. “He isn’t stupid enough to kill me, so I’m guessing this will go away in a few hours or a few days.”
“What?” I repeated, not fully wrapping my brain around this nonsense. “Someone drugged you?”
“Well, I drugged you, so what’s the difference really?” Her smile was forced as she walked toward the front door. I jogged in front of her since I had the key. I opened it up and let her in first. She began stripping a step in, chucking her clothes outside.
The look on my face must have said “are you crazy” because she said, “Do the same. I don’t know what he used, but I’m assuming it’ll go away faster if we decontaminate, which means leaving our clothes outside and showering again.”
“And what would he even use?” Neither of us were scientists, so I was absolutely useless in this situation, but I did as she said and stripped down.
“Not a clue, but I do know he’s a chem genius, so whatever he used, it’s clearly only getting to me, at least for now.”
For now.Those words were very ominous. Who knew what he added into them to get some payback. What had I gotten myself into?
For the first time since meeting Teddy, I regretted signing up for Alpha Net.
No more words passed between us as I showed her the guest bath. It was small, only big enough for a shower, toilet, and a counterless sink and mirror.
She was tired and seemed to be processing what happened, maybe even planning her own payback for this. I, on the other hand, was pushed into shock, probably the shock I should have fallen into when I came to with Teddy on top of me.
I dragged my feet to my room and into my bathroom. I went through the motions, turning on the water, washing my hair,scrubbing my body… but my mind was turned off besides one question I had already asked myself.
What had I gotten myself into?
My feelings for Teddy were still there. I didn’t regret joining in the sense that I regretted meeting her or what she had done to an extent, but it was still a lot to process. The possibility of being drugged again by someone I had no tangible connection to was off-putting, and knowing she was being affected by it threw me through a loop.
This wasn’t what I had expected when I put my hat in Alpha Net’s ring.
This was actually the exact opposite.
I tried to focus on the good side, the connection I had with Teddy, the near-fated draw I had to her, but that only worked so much. Whoever was fucking with her… they knew her well enough and most likely where she lived. If they were on her level at all, they knew much more than that or could find much more in a matter of minutes.
Would we ever be free of them?
