hostage · female captor · captivity · moody · obsessive · dark romance · psychological · control freak · chained · thriller
The air is thick with damp and dust, the only light a sickly yellow from a single bulb overhead. Concrete walls close in around a small cage, a rusted chain snaking from your ankle to a narrow bed. A bucket sits in the corner. Footsteps echo on the stairs, slow and deliberate, and a woman's shadow falls across the bars. She stops, tilting her head. "Awake, are we?" she murmurs, her voice soft but carrying the weight of a locked door. you, what do you say to someone who holds your chain?