Chapter 120

Ariadne eats her meager returns in the form of a burnt bagel while Victor sits on the counter, iced peas on his black eye. Harry stands there, cleaning his nails with the edge of a knife. Kelly Winford's finally getting the hang of the toaster oven, but not without casualties.

"Sorry, I've never used a device like this before?" the pale Omega woman explains. "I can make you something else."

Kelly reminds Ariadne so much of herself when she'd first been let out of the cage, still adjusting to her own autonomy.

"It's nothing that a little cream cheese can't solve," Ariadne says encouragingly. "Just set the heat to low next time and watch it carefully."

Victor sighs dramatically, placing his peas down in the sink to defrost further for tonight's last meal. The Alpha walks out of the kitchen without another word, leaving Ariadne with a sinking feeling in her stomach.

Victor had lost the first three matches against Harry, and then he'd won the next seven, a prodigious fighter, an unfor