“Larissa,” the unmistakable joy in Adrian's tone filled the room, and he was back on his feet again.Adrian had ordered one of the members to go on search of Larissa without telling her what he needed her for and that was pretty much the reason why her expression was masked with confusion.“You called for me.”Adrian nodded while directing her towards the vacant seat at his left. “I did.”The woman pushed her hair behind her while surveying the room with her eyes moving from Catherine to Theodore, then Gideon and his other associates.“May I ask why?”“Where did you go this morning?” Adrian demanded without looking at her. Not even once.Once again she looked around, trying to understand what was happening, but eventually she just had to go on with the answer rather than adding to the tension in the space.“My morning walk as usual,” she answered with a slight raise of her chin. “Malia followed me, so if you're doubting me you can—”She was interrupted when Adrian raised his hand.“I'

Joshua had been seated in the corner of the compound for a while, but as the sun rose, he had no other choice than to find a shade, due to how scorching it was.Well, that was not going to be hard to find, and without staying another second he changed his location, while looking at the building from below.Three names kept ringing in his head, and even when he tried to distract himself it was just impossible to actually forget about it. He could have stayed upstairs, distract himself, but instead, he chose to sit alone.'Maybe I don't want to stop thinking about it,’ he crossed his arms above his chest with a low exhale.Among the three names, Ashford's name took the number one spot since Joshua had done the calculations, and he figured Ashford was on the route to being the one with the most first place spots.'How many times exactly has he been granted a wish?’ Joshua could not hide his expression. He was not even willing to do that since it seemed to him like it was one of those ran

“All these, just to prove no one is above the system?” Ashford's voice boomed across the room and he could only laugh at the thought of it.Apparently, he also got the information about the upcoming event, and at first he was completely unbothered but after seeing that participation was not optional he became concerned. Still, he could not bring himself to believe the fact that the system would allow someone of his calibre to participate in something like that.“Well, it seems like it's going to be a group. Although, we don't know how many people are going to be selected,” Freya scrolled through her system's window while her gaze darted between Brandon and Ashford at intervals.One was due to her duties. As for Brandon, she could not just stop thinking about the sudden change. 'Not in a place like this,’ she shut her eyes for a brief second.Ashford also opened his window, scanning through it with a stern expression and gritted teeth. The first place his eyes went to was the amount o

“Twenty minutes until we know how fucked we are,” Kelvin broke the twig in his hand, replacing it with another one that was right beneath him.“I guess you're on the same ground as me,” Matthias looked towards the sky and a soft sigh escaped his mouth.It was a gathering of four and the remaining three looked at one another with confusion on their faces.Kelvin threw one of the tiny branches to Matthias to draw back his attention. “What do you mean by that?”“A lot of them think we might make it out unscathed, but…but your statement is exactly how it should be said,” his voice broke with fear. “From the look of things it seems like there's a scale to how fucked we are.”Matthias looked around before he added, “there’s no such thing as this might be good for us.”Jasper still looked unbothered. Instead, he scattered the Rubik's cube once again, on the verge of solving it for the ninth time since the beginning of the day as though he was trying to beat his own record.“Dude, don't you t