A New Chapter by Aiden Bates

Author:Aiden Bates [Bates, Aiden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

6

Empty Box, Empty Nest

Strange, how just staring at the empty sleeve that once housed his pills could conjure such an image of anxiety. He had replaced them, hadn't he? He was sure he'd gotten the prescription refilled a couple weeks ago, when he'd seen it on his calendar. But then...that was the week he and Isabelle finalized her resignation and selected Tristan as her replacement. With alarming clarity, the moment where he had shut off an alarm in his office right before Tristan’s interview slammed into his head like a truck—he had been so distracted, he had forgotten to go back and see what that alarm was for. With fingers that seemed to not want to work all of a sudden, he pulled up his calendar, and sure enough on the date of the interview, there was an alarm that he had turned off that read, ‘refill your suppressants’ staring back at him mockingly.

“This can be fixed,” he said aloud to himself, voice scratchy and too harsh for his liking with the state he was in. He had to remind himself that he was still in control—that he was fine. Surely this sort of thing has happened with Omegas before, where the pharmacy could get him his suppressants quickly? He briefly entertained going out himself for it, but he knew better—he was likely already exuding pheromones that Alphas would be drawn to—or at least, he didn’t want to take the risk of it being so—which made venturing away from the house out of the question. It would need to be delivered.

Blessedly, he had the phone number for his pharmacist, so he dialed and waited, trying to remind himself to breathe normally—that everything was going to be fine. After a few automated prompt responses (because everything was at least half automated now, of course it was,) he heard the phone ring that signaled he’d finally been transferred.

“Johnson Pharmacy.” The other voice—a deep male voice—his brain noted (was it weird that he noted that? He hoped not) greeted him from the other end.

“Ah, yes,” he cursed mentally when his voice came out a hoarse stammer. “My name is Myrick Thomas, and I had a prescription filled that I forgot to pick up. I was hoping it could be delivered to my home? It’s, ah,” he felt himself beginning to feel restless and strangely warm. He’d only allowed himself to experience the full effects of a heat once, when he hadn’t been on any insurance and couldn’t afford the suppressants, and the recollection was hazy and overall unpleasant. “It’s incredibly important.”

“Ah, yes, Mister Thomas,” the pharmacist said conversationally, and Myrick could hear him rummaging around. “We have your medications still—sadly, we don’t do deliveries, but if you’d like to come in, we’re open until—”

“I can’t leave the house,” Myrick winced at the way his tone went up in pitch, his panic evidently hellbent on heightening everything today. “I, ah, I haven’t really started yet, I don’t think, not fully,” he spoke very fast, the words trying to rush out and tripping one after another because he started to panic in earnest.

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