Chapter 121 Gardenia

• "It was like... I don't sleep well, you know?"
• Ambrose grunts, still holding me tight. I shift my head until my cheek is mashed against his shirt. It's probably wrong, but I slide my arms around his waist too, hugging him close in turn.
• "So, I'd be lying there in my dorm room, so tired but wide awake, and the girl next door to me snores loud enough to hear through the wall, and it was like that sound was mocking me. And I just–I'd just feel desperate all of a sudden, like I needed to escape, and if I didn't get out of that stifling, airless room I'd go mad."