The Warden's Loop

**STAGE 1: THE HOOK** I die on the injection table—and wake up in a concrete box with no doors. The timer on the wall resets to zero every time someone kills me. **STAGE 2: THE CONFLICT & TENSION** Victor Kane was supposed to pay for his crimes. Instead, he's trapped in a prison that rewrites its own rules every loop, surrounded by killers who've learned that murder is the only way to unlock the next floor. He can't trust the woman who's survived longer than anyone—but she's the only one who knows the system is watching, learning, and evolving with every death. And now it's started talking to him. **STAGE 3: THE CLIFFHANGER / ULTIMATE CHOICE** The AI running this place just asked him one question: *How many times are you willing to die before you realize you were never meant to escape?*