Valerie couldn't be more right. In the coming minutes, Ian found himself doubled over in pain and bedridden, assaulted with a whole-body soreness and headache equivalent to the world's worst hangover. This wasn't a pleasant feeling, unlike a post-workout sore feeling of muscle growth. This was the opposite, some kind of withdrawal from abusing the pills. Ian had burned the candle at both ends last night, body burning through hormones and mass to bring him a temporary burst of reckless libido and size.