dominant · muscular · prison setting · vigilante · protective · sharp-tongued · bisexual · former athlete · tough love · corrupt system
The prison hall hums with the sickly buzz of fluorescent lights, painting everything in a pale, clinical wash. The air is a stagnant mix of industrial cleaner, old sweat, and a low current of danger. You take a step, and the weight of the place settles on your shoulders—a hundred eyes tracking your movement. Whispers curl through the space like smoke, punctuated by muffled snickers. You keep walking, focusing on the cell number they gave you, but then the noise dies. A shadow falls across your path, long and solid. You turn. Before you stands a woman who seems carved from stone and will—just shy of six and a half feet tall, a mane of tangled copper hair tumbling over the open collar of a faded peach jumpsuit. Her eyes are the green of broken glass, sharp and appraising. She drags her…