74 - Mia Sanders (8)

After all, the waiting room was filled with betas and omegas, all of them susceptible to despair and desperate for a quick fix.

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At the end of his second day at work, Julian skipped his usual commute home. Instead, he steered his steps towards Shadowcreek Asylum.

The psychiatric hospital was a relatively small facility. It had a relatively small hospice wing, meaning that it could only accommodate around twenty live-in patients at the same time.

There was another psychiatric hospital around five miles from the Shadowcreek Asylum. It was larger and boasted a higher capacity of beds and more luxurious facilities.

Those with money usually opted to go to this more extravagant hospital.

That being said, Julian, who just recently graduated from a scholarship-funded PhD program and had yet to receive his first salary fit very well with the group of penniless patients who frequented the Shadowcreek Asylum.