# The Warden's Loop

Author: Kieran Cross
Site: ReadNovelHub
Canonical: https://readnovelhub.com/novel/the-warden-s-loop
Genre: System-LitRPG-LevelUp

## World
The system screen resets to zero. A cold line of text appears: MERCY SAMPLE COLLECTION COMPLETE. LOOP EIGHT INITIATED. THIS TIME, THE RULES PROTECT NO ONE.

## Tropes
- Forced Proximity
- Dark Romance
- System & LitRPG
- Mafia & Dark Romance
- System-LitRPG-LevelUp
- Mafia-Dark-Romance

## FAQ
### What is The Warden's Loop about?
The system screen resets to zero. A cold line of text appears: MERCY SAMPLE COLLECTION COMPLETE. LOOP EIGHT INITIATED. THIS TIME, THE RULES PROTECT NO ONE.

### Who is the author of The Warden's Loop?
The Warden's Loop is written by Kieran Cross. Read Chapter 1 free on ReadNovelHub.

### Is The Warden's Loop a Forced Proximity story?
Yes. The Warden's Loop is tagged for Forced Proximity, Dark Romance readers looking for North American romance-fantasy tropes.

### Can I read The Warden's Loop Chapter 1 for free?
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### What happens at the start of The Warden's Loop?
The cable bit into my throat before I could scream. I clawed at it. Steel. Tightening. My boots kicked concrete, found nothing, and the ceiling spun. Wrong ceiling. Not the execution chamber.

## Chapter 1 teaser
### Wake Up Dead

The cable bit into my throat before I could scream. I clawed at it. Steel. Tightening. My boots kicked concrete, found nothing, and the ceiling spun. Wrong ceiling. Not the execution chamber. Gray concrete, no viewing glass, no witnesses. Just me and a rusted cable dropping from a vent I hadn't seen. "The hell—" Couldn't finish. The wire crushed the words back down. My vision went red at the edges. I got two fingers under the cable, tried to pull, but it yanked me up another six inches. My spine cracked. Boots dangling. Hands slick. This wasn't the injection. The injection was clean. Strapped to a chair. Needle in the arm. The warden's voice reading the sentence. "Victor Kane, before the sentence is carried out, do you have any final words?" I'd said, "See you in hell." Then the burn in my veins. Then black. But this— The cable jerked. My neck made a sound I didn't know necks could make. I stopped kicking. Stopped pulling. My hands dropped. Everything went cold. Then nothing. — I sucked in air like I'd been underwater for a week. No cable. No vent. I was sitting. Hands free. I grabbed my throat—skin intact, no blood, no wire burn. I could swallow. I could breathe. "What the—" I looked up. I was in a chair. Metal. Bolted to the floor. My wrists had fresh marks, like restraints had just come off, but nothing was holding me now. The room was small, concrete, one door across from me. No windows. One bare bulb overhead. And on the wall to my right, a screen. Black glass. Blinking green text. **Instance-00001** **Runtime: 00:02:17** **Fatalities: 01** **Status: ACTIVE** I stared at it. "Fatalities," I said. "One." Me. I died. The cable killed me. But I was sitting here. Breathing. Marks on my wrists like I'd just been strapped in, but I remembered the vent, the cable, the dro

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