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grocery deliveries.
    Dog had learned to hide in shadows without being noticed. Getting caught was not an option, especially by the adults. He trusted none of them, especially after they took her, the only person he ever cared for, away from him.
    He usually slept in the same dumpsters he ate from, and on some nights, in big empty cardboard boxes. There were times he was lucky and he successfully hid in the washrooms of stores or malls after closing. It was the one place that didn’t have security cameras and the guards often overlooked them. As long as he stayed in there, he wasn’t discovered. He could be warm for a night and there was an abundance of clean water and soap.
    He had tried spending the night with other homeless people once in the makeshift town they built for themselves under the freeway underpass. Its community mainly consisted of other runaways like him, drug addicts, and people who had been unlucky in their fate. None of them were too threatening and mainly kept to themselves, guarding over their few possessions that they hoarded over the years. The way some of them were protecting their belongings, you’d think there were diamonds inside those piles of useless junk.
    The odd time, Dog felt threatened by the way some of the men looked at him, and he always kept on his guard when they were around. It wasn’t until the bearded man in suspenders forced him up against a wall while attempting to tear off his pants that Dog knew he wasn’t just being paranoid. It was all too real.
    No one had helped him. They all turned a blind eye while he was being assaulted. Luckily Dog found a broken beer bottle on the ground nearby and slashed the bearded man’s throat before anything could really happen. Dog had watched in fascination as the man died slowly before his eyes. Dog still had half his baby teeth at the time.
    Since then Dog did his best to keep to himself and stay hidden. And then one unlucky day—two days ago—he made the terrible mistake of trusting adults again and now he found himself in the same predicament as a prisoner on death row.
    Dog cursed himself for his weakness at the time and his stupidity. No hamburger in the world was worth this price. He vowed never to make the same mistake again. Dog would trust no one. Every person was now his enemy.
    He counted seven others in the room with him. For the most part, they were underdeveloped and weak. They were also terrified. Violence and dying was a new concept for many of the others here and Dog saw that it scared the piss out of them. Meanwhile he had looked death in the eye every single day. And he lived.
    Dog still had to maintain some level of caution and not have his confidence rule him. Dog had expected to finish Sunny from last night easily, but he underestimated his opponent’s will to survive. Dog was caught off guard and he paid for his mistakes with multiple knife wounds and a six-inch gash across his chest. It was going to scar, but then again, as long as he remained a prisoner here, there were many more of those to come.

Chapter Five.
     
     
     
    Allegra treaded carefully through the winding corridors of the Arena complex, careful not to slip on the wet concrete caused by the humidity. In her hands, she cradled a tray of food.
    One of the guards grinned and blew her a kiss. He was a degenerate. They all were.
    She ignored the guard and walked past him, waiting until she was alone to let out a sigh of relief. Allegra knew the guards dared not touch her because of Ryker, but she still felt nervous around them, especially when she knew what they were thinking about.
    Allegra was alone in the shadows now and she shuddered, but not because of the guards. She always felt his vivid eyes on her but when she turned around to look, he was never there. She quickened her pace.
    Don’t spill anything, Allegra thought. She was always careful when delivering food, making sure not to lose a single crumb. For some of the boys, she knew that this meal