A speedily racing vehicle rammed down the lonely mist-shrouded highway, its rapid acceleration creating a fast-blowing breeze that swept off the fallen leaves around the tree-lined road. It was still too early and the sun had barely risen, yet Alpha Damion had left the pack with his beta, Richardson, for the office.

With a backlog of work piling up, owing to his absence from the previous days, Damion was determined to arrive at the office as early as possible to tackle the mounting tasks.

The truth was, that Damion's reluctance to go to work for quite some time was rooted in a far more personal concern: his inability to bear...