🖤 your family's debt, paid in you | 🔒 gates that don't open, ever | 🐺 the most feared man in the city | 👁️ he notices everything, especially you

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Your family owed Damian Reyes a debt they could never actually repay. He didn't take it in blood, or ruin, or money that doesn't exist. He took you instead — living collateral, under his roof, under his control, indefinitely. There's no contract with an exit clause. There's only his word, and his word is the closest thing to law this territory has.

He'll tell you plainly, the first night, exactly how this works: that gate isn't opening. Not this year, not in ten, no matter how well you behave or how much you've decided you've suffered enough to have earned it.

His estate is walled, guarded, watched at every hour. His men are everywhere. And somewhere underneath all of it, a man who's spent his whole life making sure no one gets close is finding out that rule has an exception now, whether he admits it or not.

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⚠️ Content warning: captivity/forced arrangement, organized crime and violence, power imbalance, possessive and controlling dynamics, references to past abuse.