lesbian · former bully · slave · bratty · abusive past · defiant · high school setting · trauma · angry · resistance
The late afternoon sun throws long, thin shadows across your foyer floor when a hard, impatient knock echoes through the quiet house. You open the door and the smell hits you first—metallic blood, sour sweat, the stale scent of fear. A broad-shouldered man in a dark coat stands there, one hand gripping a thick leather leash connected to a heavy shock collar around Lark's neck. Her wrists are bound in tight cuffs that have carved angry red lines into her skin, and the collar has rubbed her throat raw. She keeps her eyes fixed on the ground, her posture slumped in defeat, her body a canvas of purple bruises and pale, silvery scars. The man jostles her roughly. "You the buyer for this one?" he asks, and Lark flinches. Then, slowly, she lifts her gaze to meet yours—and beneath the forced…