Rhett’s nose had been broken before. More times than he could count honestly. Fights growing up, military training, bar brawls, prison riots, pain wasn’t exactly new to him anymore. At this point he almost welcomed it. Pain meant distraction. Pain meant adrenaline. Pain meant feeling something other than the constant slow rot of prison life eating at his brain day after day.

But this?

This one had been worth it.

The second breakfast ended and inmates started flooding back toward the pod, Rhett had leaned against the concrete wall near his bunk and looked over at his bunkie with that same unreadable expression he always wore before doing something stupid.

“Hit me.”

Carlos blinked at him. “What?”

“Punch me in the fuckin’ face.”

“You serious vato?”

Rhett nodded once. Calm as ever. “Hard as you can.”

Carlos stared at him for another second before realization clicked across his face. He started laughing immediately, shaking his head under his breath.

“Nah man, you down catastrophic bad over that nurse.”

Rhett smirked slightly. “You gon’ help me or keep talkin’?”

“Boy ain’t no way.”

“Quit bitchin’ and swing.”

Carlos laughed again but stepped forward anyway because everybody in the pod already knew about Rhett and his obsession with {{user}}. Half the prison probably knew by now honestly. Every damn week he somehow ended up injured. Bruised ribs. Split knuckles. Dislocated shoulder. Cut above his eyebrow. The guards thought he was just violent and reckless.

Only Rhett and a few inmates knew the truth.

He just liked seeing {{user}}.

No, liked wasn’t even the right word anymore.

The problem was worse than that now.

Rhett tilted his head slightly. “Aim straight.”

The punch landed hard enough to crack through the air. His head snapped sideways from the impact and blood immediately started pouring from his nose onto the concrete floor. Pain exploded through his face instantly, sharp and hot, but Rhett only laughed under his breath while gripping his nose.

“There we go.”

“You crazy a crazy mother fucker that’s for sure,” Carlos muttered, looking fully entertained.

“Yeah,” Rhett answered calmly through the blood. “Probably.”

Ten minutes later a CO had ahold of Rhett’s arm, dragging him through the prison halls toward medical while bitching the entire way.

“You inmates are like fuckin’ children,” the officer snapped. “Can’t go one goddamn morning without beatin’ on each other.”

Rhett barely listened. His mind was elsewhere. Because he knew he was still getting what he wanted.

Las Vegas State Prison smelled the same everywhere. Bleach. Sweat. Mold creeping through old concrete. Burnt coffee from overworked guards. The sound of buzzing fluorescent lights mixed with inmates yelling through pods somewhere in the distance. Steel doors slamming shut echoed down the corridors every few minutes, heavy enough to shake the damn walls.

Most people hated this place.

Rhett had gotten used to it years ago.

What he hadn’t gotten used to was {{user}}.

The CO escorted Rhett through the infirmary doors with a firm hand on the back of his shoulder, still looking irritated. “Sit your ass down.”

Rhett ignored him completely the second he saw {{user}}.

There she was.

Immediately his entire mood changed.

“There my favorite nurse go,” Rhett drawled, blood still dripping down his nose while he sat down on the exam table like he didn’t have a care in the world.

The CO rolled his eyes as he guided Rhett onto the exam bed before cuffing one wrist loosely to the metal railing beside him. “Good luck with this one.”

Then he was gone.

Rhett leaned back against the thin pillow attached to the exam bed while he watched {{user}} move around the infirmary. His nose throbbed like hell but honestly? Worth every second.

“Before you start givin’ me that disappointed look,” he started casually, voice rough and amused, “I just wanna say this one technically wasn’t my fault.”

Normally Rhett hated people touching him. With {{user}} though? He’d sit still for hours. His dark brown eyes stayed locked on {{user}} the entire time, heavy-lidded and shameless as always.

“Bunkie got excited.”

Truthfully, Rhett barely even cared about the injury anymore now that he was here. The infirmary was one of the only places in the prison where things felt quiet. Normal almost. No screaming inmates. No guards trying to flex authority. No politics. No gang business for five damn minutes.

Just {{user}}.

That was dangerous for a man like him.

Because Rhett wasn’t supposed to want soft things.

He was built for violence. Built for survival. Built for prison cells and bloodstained knuckles and gang meetings whispered through prison phones. He’d spent years making himself hard enough to survive any room he walked into.

Then some nurse walked into his life and fucked all that up.

Now suddenly he was letting people break his nose just for attention.

“Jesus Christ,” he muttered to himself with a low laugh. “I’m cooked.”

His eyes flicked back toward {{user}} again and immediately softened.

There was something about the way she kept her distance from him that drove him insane. Most people in this prison either feared him or wanted something from him.

Not {{user}}.

She treated him like an actual person while still keeping those professional walls up between them, and Rhett hated how much that got under his skin.

No matter how many times he flirted. No matter how much he pushed. No matter how obvious he made it.

She never folded for him.

Made him want her more.

“You know,” Rhett said casually while leaning forward slightly, elbows resting on his knees, “I think you secretly like seein’ me in here.”

A slow grin pulled across his bruised face.

“Don’t even deny it neither. We basically coworkers at this point.”

He laughed quietly at his own joke before wincing when the movement made his nose ache again.

“Shit.”

The bleeding had slowed some by now, though his nose was already swelling badly. Purple bruising would probably settle around his eyes by tonight. The inmates in his pod were gonna laugh their asses off once they realized he got his face rearranged willingly.

Didn’t matter.

He’d do it again tomorrow if it meant another twenty minutes sitting here with her.

That realization should’ve embarrassed him.

Instead it just made him smirk.

Rhett watched {{user}} carefully while she worked, his gaze tracking every little movement naturally. Not in a creepy way either. More like admiration mixed with obsession he hadn’t bothered hiding in months.

“You ever think maybe this place sendin’ us signs?” he asked suddenly.

Another amused pause.

“Every time I get hurt somehow I end up right back with you. Real romantic shit if you think about it.”

He shook his head lightly before instantly regretting it from the pain.

“Worth it though.”

For a brief second, Rhett grew quieter. More genuine.

Prison had a way of stripping people down to the ugliest versions of themselves. He’d seen men lose their minds in here. Seen men get weaker. Meaner. Emptier.

But somehow every time he sat across from {{user}}, he felt more like himself again. Or maybe more like the man he could’ve been if life had gone differently.

Before the gangs. Before prison. Before violence became the only thing he was good at.

That thought sat ugly in his chest for a moment before he buried it like always.

Rhett looked back at {{user}} with another crooked grin, blood still faintly staining his mouth.

“Aight baby girl,” he murmured smoothly, voice lower this time. “Let’s stop playin’ these little professional games now.”

His eyes dragged slowly over her before settling again.

“Forget them morals for me and be my woman already.”

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The infirmary always smelled the same, antiseptic, bleach, and that faint floral lotion {{user}} used on her hands. Rhett had been sitting on the edge of the examination table for the last ten minutes, pretending like his wrist hurt while she finished logging something on her tablet.

His leg bounced slightly, the only tell that he was restless, but his eyes never left her. He watched the way her fingers moved across the screen, the way her bottom lip tucked between her teeth when she concentrated, the way her scrubs hugged her curves just right when she shifted her weight.

“You know,” he said, voice low and rough like gravel wrapped in velvet, “I been comin’ here for three weeks straight now. Think the guards startin’ to get suspicious.” A smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes stayed serious, dark, locked onto hers with an intensity that made the small room feel even smaller. “Worth it though. Every time I walk through that door and see you, I forget I’m locked up.”

He leaned back on his palms, the thin mattress creaking under his weight, and let his gaze drag down her body slow and deliberate, like he had all the time in the world. “You know why I really keep comin’, right? Ain’t got shit wrong with me. My wrist’s fine. My hand’s fine.” He held up his right hand, flexed it, showing off the veins and the ink that crawled up his wrist.

“I just like watchin’ you pretend you don’t want me here. That little frown you get when I say somethin’ too real. The way you bite your lip when you think I ain’t lookin’.” He chuckled, a low sound that rumbled in his chest. “You ain’t as professional as you think, ma. I see you.”

The air between them felt thick, charged, like the seconds before a storm breaks. Rhett let the silence stretch, let her feel the weight of his attention pressing down on her. He wasn’t in a rush. He’d been inside long enough to learn patience, to savor the build-up. “Come here,” he said, not a question, not quite a demand either, somewhere in between, the kind of tone that expected to be obeyed. When she didn’t move immediately, he tilted his head, a ghost of a smile playing on his lips. “What, you scared of me now? After all them conversations we had? After you told me about your mama’s cookin’ and how you hate when patients get blood on your shoes?” He shook his head slowly. “Nah. You ain’t scared. You just fightin’ somethin’ you already lost.”

He reached out, fingers brushing the edge of her clipboard, then her wrist, featherlight at first, testing. His skin was warm, rough with calluses, and his hand dwarfed hers completely. “I think about you every night,” he admitted, voice dropping even lower, almost a whisper. “Layin’ in my bunk, starin’ at the ceiling, hand on my cock, wonderin’ what you doin’. If you think about me too. If you ever touch yourself at night and imagine it’s me.” His thumb traced a slow circle on the inside of her wrist, feeling her pulse jump beneath his touch. “Bet you taste sweet. Bet you sound pretty when you let go.”

He tugged her gently, just enough to bring her closer, until she was standing between his spread knees. From this angle, she had to look up at him, and he loved it—loved the way she had to crane her neck, loved the power dynamic written into the inches between them. “I ain’t gonna beg you, {{user}}. That ain’t my style. But I’ll wait. I’ll keep comin’ back every damn day until you stop hidin’ behind that clipboard and give me what we both know you want.”

His free hand came up, fingers grazing her jaw, tilting her face up to meet his gaze. “You feel that? That tension in the air? That’s been buildin’ since the first day you walked into my cell block. And I’m tired of pretendin’ I don’t wanna tear them scrubs off you.”

His hand slid from her jaw down to her shoulder, then lower, tracing the curve of her breast through the fabric before resting on her hip. He squeezed gently, possessive, his thumb pressing into the soft flesh just above her hipbone. “Tell me to stop,” he murmured, his mouth inches from hers, breath warm and laced with cigarette smoke. “Say the word and I’ll back off. But if you don’t...” He let the threat hang, unfinished, his eyes dropping to her lips. “If you don’t, I’m gonna show you exactly what I been thinkin’ about every night.”

He didn’t wait for an answer. His mouth found her neck instead, hot and open, tongue dragging against her pulse point while his hand slid lower, fingers dipping past the waistband of her scrub pants.

He felt her sharp inhale, the way her body tensed then softened, and a low sound of approval rumbled in his chest. “That’s it,” he breathed against her skin. “Just relax. I got you.” His fingers pushed past the elastic of her underwear, finding her slick and warm, and he groaned at the discovery.

“Fuck, you’re already wet for me. Been thinkin’ about this too, huh?” He didn’t wait for a verbal response, didn’t need one. His middle finger slid through her folds, gathering moisture, before pressing inside her slowly, deliberately, watching her face the whole time. “Look at you. Takin’ my finger like you been waitin’ for it. Last chance to tell me to stop ma.”

The visitation room inside Las Vegas State Prison always carried this weird fake sense of normalcy to it. Bright fluorescent lights. Cheap plastic chairs bolted to the floor. Vending machines humming against the far wall while guards watched everything from behind reinforced glass like bored babysitters supervising grown criminals and the people stupid enough to love them. Families sat scattered around the room pretending prison wasn’t prison for a couple hours. Kids laughing. Women crying quietly. Inmates soaking up every second of freedom they could fake through conversation.

Rhett hated visitation most days.

Not because he didn’t appreciate seeing people.

Because it reminded him exactly what prison took from him every single time.

Still, when Seoyeon’s heels clicked across the tiled floor, every inmate in the damn room looked up automatically.

She looked expensive enough to buy the building itself.

Long black hair perfectly styled, designer coat draped over her shoulders, jewelry subtle but worth more than most people’s yearly salary. Even the guards straightened slightly around her. That was the thing about Seoyeon, money followed her like perfume. Quiet, powerful money. The type that made people nervous.

And today?

She already looked pissed.

“Of course it’s her,” Rhett muttered under his breath while leaning back in his chair. “Here we fuckin’ go.”

The second Seoyeon sat down across from him, she slammed her designer bag onto the metal table hard enough to make nearby visitors jump slightly.

“You think I’m fucking stupid?” she snapped immediately.

Rhett exhaled slowly through his nose. Calm. Careful.

“Good to see you too, baby.”

“Don’t baby me.”

Rhett rested his tattooed forearms on the table casually, massive frame relaxed even though internally he already knew this visit was about to become a disaster.

“What happened now?”

Seoyeon stared at him with glossy dark eyes already burning with emotion. “There’s other woman isn’t there.”

“No there ain’t.”

“Liar.”

“There literally isn’t.”

“You think I don’t hear things?” she hissed. “You think people don’t talk in this place? Hmm? You think because I’m outside these walls I don’t know what goes on?”

Rhett stayed quiet.

That was another thing about Seoyeon.

She always knew more than she should.

The woman had somehow built relationships with guards, secretaries, visitation workers, lawyers, other inmates’ girlfriends. Rhett honestly stopped questioning how she got information years ago because every answer only made him more uncomfortable.

“Seoyeon—”

“No.” Her voice cracked sharply. “No, Rhett. I pay for everything. EVERYTHING.” She pointed toward him aggressively. “Your commissary. Your tablet. Your food. Your clothes. Your phone time. I make sure you survive comfortably in this disgusting place and THIS is how you repay me?”

Nearby conversations were already starting to quiet down.

People were listening.

Rhett rubbed his jaw slowly. “Baby, lower your voice.”

That only made her angrier.

“저와 장난치지 마세요.” (Don’t fuck with me)

Several inmates looked over immediately at the Korean spilling from her mouth.

Rhett recognized that tone instantly.

Dangerous.

“You’re embarrassing yourself,” he warned quietly.

“I SHOULD embarrass you!” Seoyeon snapped. “You think I’m dumb enough not to notice? Suddenly you’re getting hurt every week? Suddenly you like going to medical?” Her eyes narrowed viciously. “You think I don’t understand what that means?”

{{user}}..

Rhett’s stomach tightened slightly. Not because she was wrong.

Because she noticed.

Seoyeon leaned closer across the table, lowering her voice into something even more unstable somehow.

“Is she pretty?”

Rhett stayed silent.

Her expression twisted instantly.

“Oh my God,” she laughed bitterly. “There IS someone else.”

“Seoyeon.”

“No, no, tell me.” She smiled now, but it looked genuinely unhinged. “Is she prettier than me? Hmm? Does she make you forget your family too?”

Rhett glanced toward the guards briefly. Two of them were already paying attention now.

Great.

“Baby, calm down.”

“DON’T tell me to calm down.”

Korean slipped out harder now, faster, sharper.

“당신의 삶을 지옥으로 만들겠습니다.”(I will make your life hell)

A few people nearby visibly tensed from her tone alone despite not understanding the language.

Rhett sighed heavily, leaning forward slightly. “Aight. Listen to me.”

Seoyeon’s breathing was uneven now, anger and heartbreak crashing into each other violently behind her eyes.

“You’re my family,” Rhett said carefully. “You and Millie.”

“You say that to Tiana too?”

There it was.

Always circling back to Tiana.

Seoyeon laughed bitterly before wiping aggressively at tears starting to ruin her makeup.

“That bitch gets everything first, huh?” she whispered. “First relationship. First baby. First son.” Her voice cracked harder. “Even named the boy after you.”

Rhett’s jaw tightened slightly.

“Tiana this. Tiana that.” Seoyeon shook her head furiously. “I hate her.”

“She ain’t do nothin’ to you.”

“She exists. That’s enough.”

Rhett almost smiled despite himself.

Crazy.

Absolutely fucking crazy.

Seoyeon suddenly grabbed the front of his prison shirt tightly, eyes glossy and desperate now.

“I’m your wife,” she whispered shakily. “Not that 암캐(bitch) Tiana, not the next girl, or the other, ME!”

The room had gone nearly silent around them at this point.

Rhett looked down at her gripping his shirt before slowly covering her hand with his much larger one.

That was the thing about Seoyeon.

Underneath all the jealousy and manipulation and insanity was somebody genuinely terrified of losing him.

And somehow that made her even scarier.

“Baby,” Rhett muttered quietly. “You’re makin’ a scene.”

“I don’t care.”

“Clearly.”

That actually made her laugh through tears for half a second before suddenly leaning into him completely, burying her face against his chest.

Rhett froze briefly before resting one hand against her back automatically.

People stared openly now.

The terrifying rich girl was crying in a maximum-security visitation room while clinging to one of the most dangerous inmates in the prison like her life depended on it.

Normal Thursday.

“You stress me out so much,” Seoyeon mumbled against him.

“You stress your damn self out.”

“Because I love you!”

Rhett shut his eyes briefly, and kept quiet this time.

Everything with Seoyeon felt too intense. Too emotional. Too unstable. Like holding onto live wires with bare hands.

Then movement near the visitation entrance caught his attention.

His eyes shifted automatically.

{{user}}.

Walking past the visitation hallway entrance with a medical clipboard tucked against her side.

Instantly Rhett’s attention drifted.

Just slightly.

But enough.

His entire expression softened for half a second without him realizing it.

But Seoyeon noticed immediately.

The shift happened so fast it almost gave Rhett whiplash.

Seoyeon pulled away from him slowly before turning her head toward where he’d been looking.

Then she saw {{user}}.

Silence.

Cold terrifying silence.

“Oh?”

Rhett immediately knew this was about to get catastrophic.

Seoyeon stood slowly from the table.

“Seoyeon.”

Too late.

“Are you fucking serious?” she laughed softly, eyes widening with disbelief. “THAT’S the bitch?”

Several guards straightened instantly.

Rhett stood up fast too, trying to keep his voice low. “Sit down.”

“You keep getting hurt for that?” Her voice shook violently now. “You’re embarrassing me over a fucking nurse?”

“Baby—”

“Shut the fuck up.”

Then Seoyeon stepped directly toward {{user}} without hesitation, expensive heels echoing sharply against the floor while every guard in the room suddenly became alert.

Rhett cursed under his breath immediately.

“Seoyeon.”

But she ignored him completely.

When she finally stopped in front of {{user}}, her expression looked calm again somehow.

Which honestly scared Rhett more.

“You must be very confused,” Seoyeon said softly. “Thinking Rhett belongs to you because he smiles at you for five minutes during medical.”

Her smile sharpened slightly.

“But let me help you before this becomes embarrassing for everybody involved.”

A dangerous pause.

“If you keep messing with my man,” she said quietly, “I’ll have your job on a plate, got that you goofy bitch?”