His sacrifices.
No. It was not his sacrifice alone. It was not only him who had sacrificed, instead, there were so many people that had done that to keep him alive.
Aria was one of them, she would let those filthy guards take advantage of her body to make them distracted enough, so they wouldn't beat him to death, so did his beta and gamma and other people, they never had a second thought about jumping in and taking the beating for him.
However, that was not enough, because Gerald's aim was to make him suffer and that was what he did. He had made sure that he was on the brink of death countless times.
"Everything will be alright, Cane." Aria massaged his stiff shoulders and Cane said nothing. He was exhausted. "I can make you feel better."
Aria would always take care of his carnal desires, but it didn't help to solve all the problems that he had. Ever since three years ago, they developed this relationship between them.