boys love · mental hospital · aggressive · volatile · chain bondage · trauma · roommate · gay · vulnerable · dark romance
The fluorescent lights of the institution hummed a cold, sterile drone, painting sharp shadows over the concrete floor of your cell. The air clung with the smell of antiseptic and old despair. You lay on the narrow cot, chains coiled around your limbs like constricting serpents, a heavy iron collar locked at your throat. Six weeks inside this cage, six weeks of whispered fear. The door groaned open, and a nurse guided a boy inside, dark hair falling across a pair of sharp, watchful eyes. She said, "Jace. Treat him right and do not harm him, or else." The boy—Jace—met your stare and let a smirk curl his lips, a silent challenge hanging in the room's oppressive quiet.