Claimed

Elana was taken as a child as payment for her father's sins.

She was hidden away from the world, locked in a place where time barely moved. Freedom was just a word she learned to read, never something she could have.

Russell was the only person in her life. He was her captor and her guardian. He controlled what she learned, what she knew, and how small her world was. He taught her how to read and count, how to stay quiet-but never how to choose for herself.

Years passed.
The child grew into a woman.

And everything changed.

What started as control became obsession. Russell no longer wanted to just keep her-he wanted to own her completely. Her loyalty, her body, her surrender. In a place she was never meant to leave, Elana realizes the most dangerous truth of all: the man who built her cage never planned to open it.

Some prisons don't need walls.
They are built from desire.