(Ooooh, boy. Okay. Warning for grooming, adult/, domestic violence, torture, noncon drug use, and starvation.)

This one has sat in my inbox for a while because it's just... a doozy to answer. Sorry for the wait, but finally here it is.

Ridley met Grayson when he was only 16. He was working at a bar managed by a man named Jack Wolfe. He was living with Jack after running away from Alec, the man who groomed him. He was a busboy, a food runner, and he would play the piano and sing for the patrons.

Grayson started coming to the bar and conversing with Ridley pretty often. They were quite friendly when Jack died. Ridley was 17 by this point, and he had nowhere to go. Jack's sister, who was taking care of all of his things, his apartment, and his funeral, told Ridley that she wished she could take him in, but didn't have room for him. He was talking to Grayson about this at the bar one night, and Grayson offered to let Ridley live with him.

After moving in with Grayson, he was eventually coerced into signing a 24/7 BDSM contract with Grayson. He forced Ridley to disclose his childhood trauma, and the trauma of what Alec did to him in "therapy sessions." He gave Ridley a plethora of prescription drugs, taking him off of them and putting him back on in a manner that would never, ever actually help anyone, and he was only doing so to make Ridley's condition worse. He also regularly dosed Ridley with ketamine and forced him to drink large amounts of alcohol to get him blackout drunk. This was all on top of regularly beating and raping Ridley, often dragging him upstairs to his playroom that was filled with kink/sex furniture and a plethora of impact tools that he used on Ridley relentlessly.

What started out as an inappropriate relationship that Grayson indulged in turned into Ridley's worst nightmare. I often say that Grayson treated him like a sex slave, and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that. He was expected to do all the household chores, cook Grayson's meals, and was expected to be sexually available for Grayson whenever he demanded it.

He often used the contract as a way to control Ridley, who didn't understand that it was not legally enforceable for many reasons, but it played off of Ridley's fear that his father would find him and learn that not only was he not straight, but that he had signed a kink contract with a man.

Ridley eventually attempted to run away from Grayson, but couldn't leave without Jack's guitar, which had been put in a hall closet and hadn't been touched in a long while, as Grayson had disallowed it. It was the only thing he had left of Jack's, and he couldn't leave it. In attempting to get it out of the hall closet, Ridley knocked some things over, and there was some loud crashing. He tried to get out of the house before Grayson caught him, but he only managed to get to the front door before Grayson caught him. He was beaten very badly for this attempt, and Grayson then chained Ridley to his bed and kept him there, without food for a significant period of time yet to be decided.

Alice, Grayson's wife, who I haven't mentioned up to this point, but has also been involved in Ridley's torture at various points, discovers Ridley like that one day while Grayson is at work. She unchains Ridley and takes him (and Jack's guitar, he demands it) to her apartment. Whilst there, she gets a call from Grayson, who's screaming and demanding she come to the house. She says she's on her way, hangs up the phone, and tells Ridley she'll be back, but she never returns. Grayson, however, shows up that evening. Ridley hides under one of the beds in the apartment as Grayson trashes it, screaming and looking for Ridley.

That's the last time he sees Grayson, as he leaves Alice's apartment soon after. Whether or not his fear of Grayson coming after him is grounded in reality, all Ridley knows is that Grayson destroyed Alice's apartment looking for him and most likely killed Alice since she didn't return. He prioritizes getting out of that situation and to somewhere safer.