Chained

He is chained to her through his own choice. She is chained to him through no choice of her own.A thick chain linking the two of them together by their ankles and kept in place with heavy-duty locks.She knows why she is there. He has explained that once - and only once. Each subsequent time she asks, he simply tells her that she knows the reason. She knows there is no way out until he says so. For a time of his choosing, she is his prisoner and that is all there is to it. Yet - for the two of them - things could have been so, so different.