Prologue
”Love is ruthless. It seeks, it destroys, but the desire does not extinguish.”
Chapter 1
”I woke up in a cell.”
Chapter 2
”You were supposed to be a one-night stand,” Aya said.
Chapter 3
”The next time Stone arrived I was prepared.”
Chapter 4
”When I woke up from the space-time jump I had a damn awful headache”
Chapter 5
“I’m always trying to meet expectations.”
Chapter 6
”The sky was a prison.”
Chapter 7
”A bright light and a harsh buzz.”
Chapter 8
“I bet I’m stronger than you.”
Chapter 9
”The cafeteria was a replica of all the cafeterias I remember from school.”
Chapter 10
“He deserved it.”
Chapter 11
“I got you a present,” Aya said.
Chapter 12
”The days go by fast.”
Chapter 13
”Hades was standing in the center of the prison block and called out three numbers.”
Chapter 14
”Cyclops was staring at me with his one good eye.”
Chapter 15
”The boat gently rocked.”
Chapter 16
“Our hair and fingernails don’t grow” Max said
Chapter 17
“I don’t care what anybody says, he deserved it,”
Chapter 18
”My body felt the effects of the year of hard labor.”
YEAR 2
Chapter 19: Part One
”The cave-in happened fast. Faster than I could have anticipated.”
Chapter 19: Part Two
”The week did not start like any other.”
Chapter 20
”I marched through the red desert with a two-guard escort.”
Chapter 21
”There is no light in the box. There is no food in the box. There is no time in the box.”
Chapter 22
”We were released just before the Festival of the Concubines.”
Chapter 23
“My head is bothering me,” Max said as we were lowered down to the mine.”
Chapter 24
”My memories had turned into dreams.”
Chapter 25
”Even though there were more people at my table now and I had more friends than ever before, I felt completely alone when I sat down every night.”
Chapter 26
“I’m escaping,” Max said.
Chapter 27
”I turned my back for only a few seconds and heard a loud smash like the sound of shovel breaking rock.”
Chapter 28
“Just wait, just wait,” she said.”
Chapter 29
”Max was the first one in the cafeteria.”
Chapter 30
”Hades was there. He was never at the elevators in the morning.”
Chapter 31
“You again?” Goodwell wasn’t pleased.”
Chapter 32
”After three days, the box was opened and I saw light again.”
Chapter 33
“25891.” Hades called out Max’s number.”
Chapter 34
”It felt like a wake when it should have been a celebration.”
YEAR 3
Chapter 35
”Com couldn’t survive the box.”
Chapter 36
”After two years, I could remember the pain of her absence as much as I could remember her.”
Chapter 37
”When I was two my world was ruled by a giant.”
Chapter 38
”Hades made the mistake of letting me out of the box.”
Chapter 39
”There was blue under the dirt.”
Chapter 40
”I stayed awake feverishly planning for the next day”
Chapter 41
”As I sat in the cafeteria on my last night, I realized nothing had changed in my two and a half years.”
Chapter 42
”I was now in the other mine and ahead of schedule.”
Chapter 43
”I went to the first elevator and held the white card up to the panel.”
Chapter 44
”There was music filtering down the hallway.”
Chapter 45
”The words didn’t process.”
Chapter 46
”I looked down at the control board of the hover.”
Chapter 47
”It looked like a fireworks display from my vantage point on the ground.”
Chapter 48
”The brilliant red sky burned through my window.”
Chapter 49
”I should be devastated.”