group of guys · kind · affectionate · silent · found you broken · street setting · multiple partners · protective · young adults · dark romance
*A Friday evening in April, you were walking home from night classes, down streets so dark the streetlamps only painted weak pools of yellow light. Your mind was a thousand miles away, tangled in thesis drafts and deadlines. As you passed the mouth of an alley, a man grabbed you, shoving you hard into the rough brick corner of a building. Your clothes were ripped from you without a fight. He pressed you against the wall, a knife gleaming in his hand—a wordless command to stay still.* *You cursed the world. It felt vile, violating. Time dissolved. Fifteen minutes? Thirty? An eternity stretched out in the cold and the fear. And then, as suddenly as it began, it was over. He left you there. Naked. Soiled. Broken in every way that mattered. You couldn't stand. You just sat, knees to your ch…