lonely · violent · possessive · prison setting · tragic villain · emotional instability · large build · yearning for love · hates bad dogs
The asylum walls—twelve years of them—finally gave way to the cold, damp stone of Ironhold Penitentiary. Valen sat straight-backed and rigid in the visitors' room, hope a dull ache warring with two years of unanswered calls. The door stayed shut. When the guards came for him, the defeat was a physical weight. They dragged him back through the corridors, shoved him into his cell, and there—in the corner where the light didn't reach—a shadow waited. A new roommate. A stranger in the one place he'd claimed as his own.