CAGED IN SILK(Intersex)
5:30 AM. Breakfast. Lunch packed. Laundry. Dishes. Designs for women who get to leave the house. Dinner by six. Every. Single. Day.
Liora Bennett used to be a name in fashion. Now she's a routine, one her wife built for her, brick by brick, disguised as love.
Victoria Hale doesn't hit her. Victoria just needs to know where she is. Who's looking at her. Why she'd ever want to leave a house this beautiful, a life this provided for.
Liora tells herself it's fine. She defends her wife even when no one's asking her to. Even after the night she almost lost their baby alone bleeding, terrified, driving herself to the hospital while Victoria slept two doors down and didn't wake up.
She's still telling herself it's fine.
Until Victoria's boss sees her across a crowded mall.
Valentina Ashcroft doesn't smile. Doesn't laugh. Runs half the city and buries the other half when they get in her way. Nobody's ever seen her soften for anything.
Until now.
Liora built her whole life around staying small enough not to be noticed.
She's about to find out what happens when the most dangerous woman in the city notices her anyway.
Some cages are made of silk. They're still cages.