Driftwood: An Atlas Link Series Novella by Jessica Gunn

Author:Jessica Gunn
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-05-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Get out of bed.

My body didn’t want to heed the command. At all. The alarm clock blared away, an annoying, high-pitched siren. Thick fog captured my thoughts and held them in place, unreadable.

“Come on, sleepy head,” Trevor said, towel wrapped around his waist as he exited my bathroom. His muscular chest glistened with water droplets. “Briefing is in an hour, and you have to talk to General Holt before then.”

A groan signaled my protest. Why did everything feel so weird?

“Chelsea?”

I sat up. “Did I take one of those pills after you left last night?”

His eyes darkened. “I thought I swiped them all from you.”

I massaged my temples and retraced my steps. One. I’d had one before he took them, but not enough alcohol with it to push through the wall. Why’d I feel this bad, then? “Something’s not right. But I’ll be okay.”

I hoped.

“You sure?”

I nodded and forced myself into the shower. The world swayed inside the sauna, combining with the warm water to make nausea rise to the surface. I turned down the water temperature and braced myself on the shower wall. What the hell?

A flash of a memory, a brief moment of utter stupidity, overtook my mind. Anthony offered me a drink, waited until I drank, then went in on the hard questions.

“Son of a bitch,” I said. What’d he drug me with? I shuddered to guess. Nothing was supposed to inhibit me. The right amount of pain medication or an IV drip could, that poison Thompson had used on me, but that was it.

“Chelsea, let’s go,” Trevor said through the door.

I forced myself through the rest of the shower, biting back as much of the dizziness as I could. Alcohol mixed with maybe one Vicodin pill, mixed again with whatever Anthony had used. That must have been what happened.

Whatever. It’ll wear off.

But did I believe that? I glanced at myself in the mirror. I had to.

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