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All Chapters of A Prison Called Love Taboo: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

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111. The real problem

SELENA He found me in the hallway outside Sienna’s room.I had been standing there too long, listening to the soft sound of her breathing through the cracked door, trying to calm the residual heat still sitting in my mouth from the kiss. My lips felt bruised. My pulse still hadn’t slowed. The taste of him lingered whether I wanted it to or not.Kael’s footsteps stopped behind me.I didn’t turn around.“You walked away again,” he said.His voice was low. Controlled. But there was an edge underneath it that hadn’t been there before the kiss, something sharper, thinner, like the denial and the sudden taste of me had scraped him raw.“I needed space.”“There is no space in this house that doesn’t belong to me.”I closed my eyes for a second. Then I turned.Kael stood in the middle of the hallway, sleeves still rolled up, expression carved into something dark and restless. His eyes moved over my face, dropped to my mouth, and stayed there long enough that I felt it like another touch. He

112. Silent Rules

SELENA The first thing I did the next morning was check Sienna’s door. She was still asleep, curled on her side with her stuffed dragon crushed under one arm. The door was slightly ajar, just like I had left it. Nothing looked different. No new device. No visible sensor. Whatever Kael had activated on his phone the night before was hidden, small, and already working. I stood there longer than I should have, one hand on the doorframe, listening to her breathe. He had turned our daughter’s sleep into something he monitored. Because I had told him I wanted freedom. The kitchen was empty when I went downstairs. Kael was already there, dressed, coffee in hand, reading something on his tablet. He didn’t look up when I entered. He didn’t speak. The silence from last night had followed us into the morning like a third person living in the house. I poured coffee I didn’t want. “You’re not going to say anything?” I asked. Kael’s eyes moved from the tablet to me. Calm. Unreadable. Com

113. Breaking point

“I’m not packing anything.”The words left my mouth flat and final. I stood on the opposite side of the kitchen island, hands gripping the edge of the counter hard enough that my fingers ached. Kael hadn’t moved since he told me we were leaving the city. He just watched me with that cold, assessing stillness he wore when he had already decided the outcome.“Yes,” he said, “you are.”“No. I’m not. And neither is Sienna. You’re not dragging us out of the house because my mother sent a letter.”Kael’s eyes narrowed slightly. “I’m not asking, Selena.”“And I’m not obeying.” My voice rose despite my effort to keep it down. “This is exactly what I was talking about last night. Someone knocks on the door, someone sends an email, and your solution is to tighten everything. Take us away. Control the environment. You don’t talk to me. You don’t ask what I think. You just issue orders like I work for you.”“You live in my house,” he said, voice still low. “You sleep in my bed. You raise my chi

114. What She Saw

SELENA My throat burned.Every breath scraped. I kept one hand pressed against it, not because it would help, but because I needed something to hold while the rest of me tried to catch up. The kitchen still felt too small. The air still felt too sharp. Kael stood a few feet away, frozen in the space between anger and damage control, his hand still slightly raised like he had forgotten to lower it all the way.Sienna hadn’t moved from the doorway.Her colored pencils were clutched so tightly against her chest that a couple of them had started to slip. Her eyes were wide and glassy, jumping between my face and her father’s. She was four years old. She shouldn’t have known how to look at anyone with that kind of quiet, assessing fear.“Sienna,” Kael said. His voice had changed completely; lower, softer, the version he only ever used with her. “Come here.”She didn’t come.Her chin trembled. “Why were you hurting Mommy?”The question landed in the middle of the kitchen like broken glass

115. The Look in Her Eyes

KEALThe house felt wrong.Sienna had refused to let me put her to bed. She had gone rigid when I reached for her, turned her face into Selena’s shoulder, and whispered something I wasn’t meant to hear. Selena had carried her upstairs without looking at me. The door to Sienna’s room had closed. Then stayed closed.I gave them an hour. I stayed downstairs in the study with a drink I didn’t taste, staring at the same page on my laptop without reading a single line. Every time I closed my eyes I saw my daughter’s face in the kitchen doorway. The way she had looked at my hand on her mother’s throat. The way she had said you’re scary right now like she was stating a fact about the weather.I had built this house to be untouchable.I had not built it for her to be afraid of me inside it.When I finally went upstairs, the hallway was dark except for the thin line of light under our bedroom door. I stood outside Sienna’s room first and listened. Steady breathing. She was asleep. The senso

116. I Love My Monster

SELENA Kael’s hand stayed on my wrist for a long second longer than it should have.I didn’t pull. I just waited. The silence between us was thick enough to choke on. I could still feel the ghost of his fingers from earlier on my throat, could still hear Sienna’s small voice saying you’re scary right now. Whatever calculation was happening behind his eyes finally ended.He let go.The sudden absence of pressure almost made me unsteady. I didn’t thank him. I didn’t look at him for permission. I simply turned, opened the door, and walked out of our bedroom before he could change his mind.The hallway felt colder. Sienna’s door opened without a sound. I slipped inside and closed it behind me carefully, then stood there for a moment in the dim glow of her nightlight. She was curled on her side in the middle of the bed, one arm locked around her stuffed dragon, mouth slightly open. Her lashes rested against her cheeks. Her breathing was slow and even. In sleep she looked even smaller th

117. Daddy Scares Her

I woke up with a stiff neck and the side of my face marked by the carpet. For a few seconds I didn’t remember where I was. Then the nightlight’s weak glow, the small bed against the wall, and the soft sound of Sienna’s breathing brought everything back. My phone was still on the floor beside me. My eyes felt swollen. The bruise on my throat pulsed when I swallowed. Sienna was already awake. She was sitting up in bed with her dragon in her lap, watching me quietly. The moment our eyes met, she scrambled down, dragging the blanket with her, and crawled straight into my lap on the floor. Her arms went around my neck carefully, as if she somehow knew it hurt. “You slept here,” she whispered. “Yes.” “Because of Daddy?” I didn’t answer. I just smoothed her hair and pressed a kiss to the top of her head. She accepted the silence and rested against me, small fingers playing with the edge of my sleeve. Eventually I had to move. I carried her downstairs because she refused to walk on he

118. Still craving

SELENA The day moved like thick water. Sienna refused to leave my side for more than a few minutes at a time. If I stood up, she stood up. If I went to the bathroom, she waited right outside the door. When I tried to put her down for a nap, she cried until I gave up and let her fall asleep against my chest on the living room couch, one small hand fisted in my shirt like she was anchoring herself to me. Kael passed through the room twice. The first time, he stopped in the doorway and looked at us. Sienna was already half-asleep. The second she sensed him there, her fingers tightened and she pressed her face harder into me. Kael’s eyes lingered on the back of her head. Something unreadable moved through his expression. Then he left without speaking. The second time, he came in to take a call. His voice stayed low and controlled while he discussed something about contracts and timelines. I felt his gaze on me throughout the entire conversation. On the bruise. On the way I held

119. Promise Me, Daddy

Kael left for the office at 7:40 a.m. He didn’t ask if I wanted him to stay home again. He simply appeared in the living room fully dressed, adjusted his cufflinks, and looked at Sienna for a long moment where she sat pressed against my side on the couch. She didn’t look up from the coloring book in her lap. The tip of her tongue was caught between her teeth in concentration, but I could tell by the stiffness in her shoulders that she knew he was there. “I’ll be back by six,” he said. I nodded once. He waited half a second longer than necessary, as if testing whether either of us would give him more than that. When we didn’t, he turned and left. The sound of the front door closing echoed through the house, followed by the low growl of his car pulling away. Only then did Sienna’s pencil start moving again. The day stretched long and quiet. I made her breakfast, helped her build a fort out of couch cushions, and sat on the floor with her while she explained the complicated rul

120. under his touch

SELENA Sienna brought it up while she was pushing peas around her plate.“I want to go to the park tomorrow.”The dining table went quiet. Kael sat at the head of the table, sleeves rolled up, watch glinting under the light as he cut into his food. He had been mostly silent through dinner, answering Sienna when she spoke to him but not pushing for more than she offered. The pinky promise from earlier still sat between the three of us like a fragile truce.He looked at her now.“Alright,” he said. “I’ll take you.”Sienna’s fork stopped moving.Her small face tightened. She glanced at me, then back at him, and her shoulders curled inward the same way they had when she first saw his hand on my throat.“I’m scared to go with you,” she said.Kael went very still.“I want to go with Mummy.”The words were soft. Certain. They landed in the middle of the table and stayed there. Kael didn’t answer immediately. His knife rested against the edge of his plate. His eyes stayed on Sienna’s face,

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