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Custodian · Chapter 4

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Content Warnings 5 listed
  • Explicit sexual content
  • captivity
  • dubious consent
  • power imbalance
  • and religious themes / blasphemy.
Excerpt

Three years of evenings, and the chain has become a clock.

The iron links produce a specific sound when she shifts from sitting to kneeling.

A clink followed by a metallic whisper as the cuff rotates on her ankle.

I have heard this sequence approximately one thousand times. I could transcribe it the way I transcribe plainchant, but I will not.

It would mean I have been listening.

Author’s Note

Custodian is a story in the Letters Between Sex and Violence anthology. If you like your romance with teeth, try my other serials: Victoria, Taming Malice, and Nobody Came Looking.