Beyond Control

Chapter 40

I wanted to stop, I wanted to know more about who Ayven is. I want to know who I'm allied with before I get betrayed again, but I can only rely on the person who's most acquainted with this place to escape.

So I keep on running behind him, whispering to Sepehr back to back to get more information. Sometimes I can hear him answering but sometimes all I can hear is his heavy breathing and panting covering over his own voice.

Sepehr, who was part of the facility's team, was a former worker, a rookie lab assistant working under his uncle. He accepted this job because of the high pay, and it was his uncle who'd introduced and signed him up for this job.

He didn't elaborate more on who his uncle was but I assumed that he's probably not raised by his biological parents.

All he told me was that his uncle did terrible things that defied the facility's rules and he was there as a helping hand, his uncle's partner in breaking the rules. And they had underestimated and clearly weren't careful about where their plan was going.

They were betrayed eventually, and the facility caught them. They threw his uncle into a cell with a subject and was killed instantly, like the way I killed Felix, but I mentioned none of that.

While his uncle got his punishment, he was thrown to the cell where I first came in, waiting for the scientist to select him as an experimental subject.

"And that's when I first saw you," he said.

We're currently waiting in one of the observation rooms, standing before the empty cell where the subject had been released. Ayven was trying to access the computer on the desk, but it seemed to have failed for every way he'd used.

Sepehr and I were standing at the far corner of the room, nearest to the door and looking out for any suspicious individual.

"Seriously?" I stared at him.

"What?"

"You were that rude-as-fuck boy?"

"And you were that scared-as-fuck girl."

I rolled my eyes, and crossed my arms before I changed the topic, "So you knew everything in here."

"Not really, I was new when they caught us, but unfortunately they aren't grateful for a wonderful worker like me." He scoffed, then ran a hand across his hair.

I shot him a stare and sneered, "Well, you were demoted from a worker to a subject."

"Hey-"

"There's only nine of the subjects left," Ayven interrupted us, "the rest are either dead or captured back into their cell."

He came over to us after the computer switched into a black screen.

I nodded as an acknowledgment, "That's still a great amount of us to destroy this place, I hope."

Now, I looked at Ayven as if he's a different person, and he looked at me the same way as before, looking at me as if he knew everything about me.

After what Sepehr told me, even if it's only a bit, I felt like Ayven isn't who I think he is. And I wondered why we'd never discussed these things before, and why he chose to save me specifically.

"I predict that Kaysen's men will be arriving here soon," he stated. "We-"

He broke off as he heard a pair of footsteps down the hallway. Sepehr peaked his head out and I watched his face light up.

And I saw a person arrive at the door.

I don't recognize releasing this person from his cell but Sepehr seemed like he's happy to see him here.