Once I finished up everything that needed doing, I sank down into my office chair. My mind kept circling back to those girls. Where on earth had he taken them? My gaze drifted aimlessly until it landed on the stack of custom company-branded drinks. Originally, the company had framed these as a perk, something they had ordered specifically to keep us refreshed and working more efficiently. Then Brian's words about "dosing the water" popped into my head out of nowhere. All those little "benefits" the company had showered on us before suddenly felt bone-chilling in hindsight. They must have slipped something into these drinks we had been chugging every day. I scanned the office. Sure enough, almost every woman at her desk had one of those bottles sitting right next to her keyboard. And

