CAGED WOLF' inmate 0-7-7-4-1 (r18)
POV: Ricki
A book appeared outside his cell, and Ricki read it three times before admitting the giver mattered more than the story.
He found it the morning after evening count, sitting on the ledge like it had always belonged there. Cracked spine. Pages gone soft and gray at the corners, the particular softness that came from hands, not water. No note. No name. A slow, aching story about a man convicted of a crime he never committed, and Ricki read it twice in two days, each pass slower, less about the plot and more about the specific ache of being seen by a stranger who'd decided, for whatever reason, that he was worth the risk. He turned it over between chapters, thumb dragging along the s