Run, Run Rabbit (Cambric Creek After Darkverse Book 1) by C.M. Nascosta

Author:C.M. Nascosta [Nascosta, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Meduas Editoriale
Published: 2022-07-20T18:30:00+00:00

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Chapter eight

She’d known something was wrong the moment she woke. She felt sluggish and heavy, with a slight wave of nausea and mild vertigo as she staggered to the bathroom to empty the contents of her stomach. She’d felt an itch in her skin the entire day at work, and when the next day brought more of the same, she stopped at the corner pharmacy on her way home that evening, a heavy stone of certainty sitting in her stomach.

When she arrived back at her apartment, she deposited her bags on the counter — Chinese takeout, a bag of fun-size caramel candies that had made her mouth water at the sight of them when she stood in the pharmacy’s checkout line, and a collection of pregnancy tests. As she stood before the aisle in the store, she thought about how important the work they did was.

Hastings-Durning Pharma, one of the only multi-species pharmaceutical companies on the market, re-created common over-the-counter medications and remedies for a non-human clientele and developed their own line of eagerly anticipated pharmaceuticals. He still treated her as he always had at the office, the same sneering pompousness with which he treated everyone, but she had been brought along on the meetings with one of the firm’s biggest clients, his biggest clients.

She’d been brought along and introduced, slowly eased on board as a part of their team, and now she was meeting with their representatives independently. It was the singular professional gift he’d given her, but a mighty one, she recognized. It was not her account, and they were not her clients, but it was a far cry from stacks of discovery documents on her desk and a box of highlighters. They liked her. They said so every time they met, opining that they were grateful Grayson had left them in good hands in his absence for the afternoon.

The red tape was endless. Nothing underscored how completely the scales were tipped for humans when a basic OTC antihistamine for non-humans had to go rounds of battles to be approved by the federal regulatory committee. With each month that passed, Vanessa found herself in longer and deeper conversations with Grayson’s father, deciding his werewolf first way of thinking was not as radical as she had initially thought. She was still a tiny fish in their pond, and she knew the meetings she was left to steward weren’t of any real consequence, but it was a stepping stone to building a relationship with this client.

There was nothing on the shelf in the pharmacy made for her. Four different brands of pregnancy tests for humans, one for Nagas and lizardfolk, and nothing else. She put three of the four options for humans on the counter, along with the bag of candy and a bottle of water, leaving with her heart in her mouth. She realized that Cambric Creek would likely have what she was looking for, but she dared not venture to his mother’s doorstep for this particular task.

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