I thought that when we entered the elevator, Goliath, Yousef, and Melanie would be waiting for us, but that wasn't the case.
The naive part of my brain—the part that gets easily excited and shows how much I still need to mature—made me believe that he would send the four of us in one elevator and take another himself, but no.
Inside the elevator, it's just him and me, squeezing into a space far too small for the enormous tension between us.
He ordered me to go to the elevator at the end of the corridor on the left, and I did so without protest, foolishly believing that the others were there. It turns out this is his elevator, and like an i***t, I fell for it.
There are twenty floors that make up this pyramid, divided into five sections. Twenty floors we are beginning to ascend as he pr
