Page 14 of Captive Beta

Pheromone bombs that not only disturb any Alpha and Omega that’s caught in them, but that could also have very uncomfortable effects if any of them are near their heats or ruts…

The door to the lab slams open and Riley storms inside, gun in hand, eyes wild. Only when she sees I’m fine does she calm down.

“How good are you at getting information out of unwilling people?” I grin at her.

“How good am I at it or how comfortable am I with it?” She comes closer, before she spots the unmoving body at my feet.

“Either?”

She shrugs, smirking. “Nobody has accidentally died yet.”

“Good enough.” I nod. “Because we’re going to have an interesting night ahead of us.”

And none of it will be good.

Pheromone bombs, pheromones as weapons.

This is a scary future…

Then, as the door opens and two people from our team come in, a loud noise starts.

Someone set the alarm off!

Fuck!

7

Caleb

Jorge is panicked, his pheromones spiking around him irregularly, and poor Miles looks like he’s mentally writing his will, convinced that Mathew, Derrick or Timothy will kill him before the night is over.

No matter how I explain to them that this is what Vera does, that she’s good at disappearing into the crowd, it doesn’t calm them down at all. I guess it makes sense that they don’t, but it does make the situation more stressful for me, dealing with their pheromones and anxious questions on top of tracking Vera.

Luckily, Vera turned the sound on her phone on tonight, so we found her bag fairly easily. She left it somewhere where a bag doesn’t seem too out of place and that’s easy to get back to, just like I taught her. She’d dropped her bag into a large flower pot that’s surrounded by benches, full of young people enjoying their night out. One more bag among all the other bags from constantly changing groups of people doesn’t stand out too much.

Well, there were groups of young people hanging out there, until we showed up and Jorge and Miles scared them off with their foul moods.

From what I found in her bag, she took her toolkit and her pheromone suppressants with her, probably sprayed some on too. Her phone and wallet were still in her bag.

This means that she didn’t think she was in any immediate danger, or she would have at least taken her phone with her, so we can track her through that or she could call for backup. But, since she took all her tools and not just some, she also doesn’t know what to expect, so she probably didn’t see anything specific that made her curious.

All good signs, for Vera and for me.

Possibly not for the other two…

“What should I tell Timothy? I can’t keep this from him any longer.” Miles’ voice is full of tension and his pheromones flare with frustration.

I think for a moment. “Tell him that Vera snuck away. Tell him that I’m with you and that we don’t have our eyes on her but that we will soon. Make sure he knows it’s because she snuck away and that we don’t think she’s in any danger. Also, he can’t tell the others until they’re back from the mission. I don’t want them to get worried.”

“You want to tell them that she’s not in any danger?!” Jorge’s voice squeaks incredulously at the end. “We don’t know that she isn’t.”

I turn to him, trying to get him to calm down, but with Vera missing and him already being on edge from Mathew and Riley being away on a mission, I don’t know if I can without resorting to my Alpha powers and I don’t want to have to do that unless I really have to.

“She didn’t think she would be in any danger when she left or she would have taken you with her or otherwise have told you about it. That’s all we can go on right now.”

He shakes his head but I put my finger to my lips, shushing him as Miles makes a very uncomfortable call to Timothy. I reach into my pocket and take out a couple of earpieces, holding them out to Jorge. “So we can stay in touch more easily, in case we get split up.” He doesn’t seem to want to but accepts one.

When Miles looks like he’s about to pass out and finally hangs up, I give him one too. “Grabbed these on my way out the door. Thought they might come in handy.”

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