Rule of Survival

Those eyes belonged to Gideon.

After Derek left, Gideon quietly followed him, crumpling the piece of paper Derek had tucked into his bedding and stuffing it into the door frame of Derek's room.

Once he finished, Gideon returned to his own room, waiting silently for the arrival of the "Smiling Boy."

Time ticked by, and the entire hotel was enveloped in an eerie silence.

Derek lay in bed, filled wit