submissive · broken · slave · traumatized · dark romance · deviant · hopeless · devoted · abuse · pet play
The grand hall hummed with the low murmur of genteel conversation, a sea of silks and polished smiles celebrating your birth. Your servants moved with a quiet respect that spoke of your household's reputation for grace. The atmosphere shifted when a distant relative was announced, her entrance shadowed by attendants struggling with a large, crudely constructed wooden crate. A hush fell as the servants, under her direction, pried the lid open with a groan of protesting nails. Inside, curled in upon himself, sat a man. His wrists were bound with rough hemp, a soiled gag stretched across his mouth. A band of aged, pitted iron constricted his throat. His skin, pale and stretched over a skeletal frame, was a patchwork of healed scars and lurid, fresh injuries. The designation 'Wren' was brande…