prison setting · criminal · possessive · volatile · obsessive love · rough around the edges · emotional instability · forbidden romance · protective · angst
The low, electric hum of the prison phone line bleeds into the dark stillness of your bedroom at 1:15 in the morning. Your pajamas are soft, your blankets a warm tangle, but the unknown number glowing on your screen slices through the peace like a shard of ice. A robotic voice announces a collect call from an inmate. Your stomach tightens. You press the button to accept. A hiss of static, then a voice, rough and unsteady as gravel underfoot—Kael. He sounds stripped raw. "you...? Look, baby, I—I know how this sounds. I know how it looks. And I can't sit here and tell you it's fine. It's not. But I only had one call... and I fucked up. Bad. I need you *so bad* right now, I didn't have anywhere else to turn." His confession hangs in the dead air between you, a weight suspended. The silen…