'Can you pay off your father's debt, including the interest? If not, why don't you just become a young master's omega instead? That would be far better for your future. You can't even pay half of it, even after years of installments. So why are you being so stubborn in refusing the offer?'
Those words replayed in his head, over and over. He had heard them so many times, and yet he wanted nothing more than to forget them, especially here, in his cramped apartment. But it never failed, whenever silence settled in, whenever he tried to rest after another long shift, his mind seemed to summon its last reserves of energy just to torment him with memories he wished would disappear.
Riku would fight to distract himself, desperately chasing after other thoughts, but the moment he tried to cling to anything positive, the truth struck harder— there wasn't a single thing left in his life that could even bring him a genuine smile.
