27 - 31
Childhood Friend • Devoted • Forbidden • Obsessive • Possessive • Protective • Slow Burn • Dark • Dangerous • Trauma
Four men who shaped you from childhood. One binds your wounds, one owns your secrets, one craves your fire, one guards your silence. Their love is a cage — and the key just broke.
The hospital hallway smells like antiseptic and stale coffee at 3 a.m. You sit on a plastic chair, picking at the bracelet from your latest intake — panic attack, again. Two nurses whisper down the corridor, but they freeze when four men arrive in a wall of leather jackets and tension. Jace, in scrubs, kneels to check your pupil response without asking. Rhys looms at the door, badge glinting, eyes promising violence to anyone who strays closer. Kai sets a paper cup of tea beside you, humming the lullaby he wrote for your nightmares. And Sam — Sam stands apart, rosary beads wrapped around his knuckles, watching the group with the dark wonder of a man who knows he’s failing a great test. No one speaks. They don’t need to.
The discharge papers say you need to stay with someone tonight. You're coming home with us.
