Primals (Reverse Harem 1)
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“You remember me, don’t you?” he asks, stretching his arms.
“Of course, I do,” I tell him. “I’m sorry I woke you up.”
“That’s fine.” Toshi glances a
t his watch. “At least, you still let me get nine hours of sleep. That’s good enough for me.”
My eyes grow wide. No way has that much time passed. “Nine hours?”
I follow him as he walks to the end of the corridor, where he opens the blinds to let the sunlight in. I quickly step back, though, squinting and rubbing the back of my head as the glaring sunlight makes my headache feel worse.
“Hangover, huh?” Toshi asks.
“Yeah.” I frown, as I piece together what I remember from last night. “I probably drank too much.”
“Not probably. You did. And maybe a little too fast, too.”
I sit at the edge of one of the pods as a wave of dizziness washes over me, turning my knees into jelly.
“Why didn’t you stop me?”
“You looked like you needed the alcohol.”
His reasoning makes a weird sort of sense. I nod. “Right.”
I lie back down inside one of the pods, my legs dangling over the edge. Now that I know where I am I’m kind of fascinated. “What is this place exactly? I thought I was on a spaceship or something. Is this one of those weird little cubicle hotel things?”
“This is one of the floors of a capsule hotel,” Toshi explains. “There are 120 capsules on this floor.”
“A capsule hotel?” I stretch my arm out towards the ceiling, running my fingers across it.
“Yes. It’s a hotel but with these pods called capsules instead of rooms. That way, more people can stay here. Also, a capsule is way cheaper than a room.”
Well, I suppose I should be grateful he brought me here. If I were waking up in a regular hotel room, I’d be freaking out even more. At least, here, there’s no question of whether or not we had sex after I passed out.
“No one’s staying here, though,” I say to him, as I sit up and look down the corridor. All the doors are open, and there’s no sound of anyone stirring.
“Yeah. Well, not too many people know about this place.”
Speaking of no one else being here, I wonder why Sebastian, Theo and Kyle aren’t, or at least, Sebastian since he seems the most adept at tracking me. Frankly, I was half expecting him to just show up behind me yesterday but he didn’t. And now, it seems I’ve slept through the night and he’s still not here.
Has he decided to leave me alone? To abandon whatever crazy quest this is? I mean, what is he going to get out of all this anyway? I don’t believe it’s just because he’s curious.
Then I remember those thoughts he had about me, of kissing me, fucking me. Yeah, I’d heard all of it, though I’d pretended not to. He’s interested in me. That’s why he’s on this trip.
But if he’s not here, maybe he lost interest?
Somehow, that thought grips my heart. I’m actually...disappointed?
I shake my head. No. Maybe he just decided to give me a bit of space. Maybe he’s waiting for me to come back. Or maybe he’s somewhere out there right now, watching over me from the shadows.
“Are you alright?” Toshi peers inside the capsule. “You got quiet all of a sudden.”
“Fine. I’m just...wondering if I should get back to my friends.”
Funny. I thought we weren’t friends.
“And?” Toshi asks.