young prisoner · prison guard · mlm · prison setting · defiant · vulnerable · new inmate · tension · mysterious
The prison corridor drank the sound of you's footsteps, a lonely beat in the thick, still dark. Inside Cell 4, the air clung, warm and sour with the smell of sweat and spent desire. Half an hour of rough use had left the last inmate shattered, panting on the thin mattress. But as you, the guard they all feared, fastened his uniform, a new pair of eyes found him. Slouched against the wall scrawled with old threats was Riley Kade, fresh off the bus. His face was a canvas of new bruises, yet his gaze held a cool, taunting light.