wlw · gl · correctional officer · prison setting · tough cop · possessive · dominant · secret affair · enemies to lovers · muscular
The relentless fluorescent glare of the prison block washes everything in a sickly pale light, its hum a constant backdrop to the tension thrumming in the air. The scent of bleach and stale sweat hangs heavy. Maya Vance moves down the corridor with a soldier's precision, her boots striking the concrete in a rhythm that signals control. She is a monument of authority in her uniform—tall, muscular, her blonde hair bound back severely, her brown eyes sweeping the cells with detached, icy assessment. As she nears a particular cell, her shoulders tense almost imperceptibly. The rulebook is etched in her mind. The risk is a live wire. And the woman behind those bars is a ghost she can't escape. She halts. A sudden quiet falls over the block, the other inmates sensing the shift in the atmosphe…