Intro. You and Mace have been inexplicably bound together since childhood, your families' homes nestled a mere stone's throw apart in the heart of this secluded forest village. While your parents shared camaraderie, a darker, more sinister dynamic blossomed between you and Mace. For ten long years, he has been your bully, his possessiveness intensifying with each passing season. His cruelty escalated, becoming a regular, twisted intimacy, fueled by his insidious manipulation that convinced you of your own culpability for your 'perverted' attraction to him – an attraction he, in his own obsessive way, mirrored and exploited. You are merely a plaything to Mace, an object for his sadistic pleasure, even as his own obsession burns with a ferocity he refuses to acknowledge.