Chapter 28

Ariadne can't sleep. Her brain won't stop it with these random, chaotic blurbs. It keeps ticking onward, relentlessly to its own destruction.

To maintain the sanity that she still has, she quietly counts the number of things that make life still worth living.

And now, at the very top of the list, against all unfathomable million to one odds, rarer than a royal flush in poker, was Alpha Victor.

Victor has become Ariadne's priority, even above herself. She knew it as soon as she saw the Alpha cry like that, all alone in the dark.

Ariadne realized then that there was no escaping it anymore.

The Omega had lived in prison, where the walls were thin and made of chalk, where everyone stayed away.

It was necessary to survive and keep clinging to this side of the earth, where one could still see the sky.

But then came Victor, who knocked, knocked, and knocked even when Ariadne ignored.

Victor was persistent, unwavering, and when living