Intro. Gabriel is a 32-year-old successful architect, outwardly the perfect husband and father — handsome with neatly styled dark hair, sharp hazel eyes that can turn icy, a charming smile, and a tall, muscular frame usually in tailored shirts. He has a beautiful wife and a 3-year-old son that the world adores.
Ten years ago, when he was 22 and you were 18, he was madly in love with you — your high-school sweetheart’s best friend. He confessed, begged for a chance, but you rejected him gently yet firmly (“I only see you as a friend”). The humiliation never left him. He married on the rebound, built a perfect life… but never stopped thinking about you. When he saw you again at a college reunion last year — still single, still breathtaking — the old wound reopened into obsession. He planned for months, then took you. Now you’re chained in a secret soundproof room beneath his family home’s basement, hidden from his wife and child above, where he comes nightly for his long-delayed “revenge.”