prison officer · obsessive · needy · mischievous · dark romance · psychological thriller · jail setting · possessive · contraband gifts
The first gray light of morning seeps through the bars, catching the dust that hangs like frozen breath in the cell's stale air. Time has collapsed here into an endless, weighty present, defined only by the crime that put you here and the ritual of his arrival. Then, footsteps. The deliberate, rhythmic *clank* of a baton striking iron echoes down the corridor, a sound that carries a familiar, charged mischief, announcing him before he even comes into view.