All Chapters of Please Ruin Me, Daddy : Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

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121. He tried

SELENA She had been against my chest since midnight.I felt the exact moment her body had given in to sleep, the gradual loosening of her shoulders, the way her hand had curled into the front of my shirt and stayed there. She hadn’t pulled away. Not once. Even in sleep she had remained turned into me, one leg faintly hooked over mine, breath warm against my collarbone. I had lain still for hours so I wouldn’t break it.The bruise on her throat had darkened to a deeper shade under the early light.I was still looking at it when the door opened.Sienna stood in the doorway in her pajamas, dragon under one arm, hair sticking up on one side. She stopped when she saw us. Her eyes moved from her mother’s sleeping form against my chest to my face. For a second the old fear flickered there. Then she straightened her small shoulders.“I woke up early,” she said. Her voice was quiet but clear. “Because I’m ready.”She didn’t run to the bed. She didn’t climb up between us the way she used to.

122. He's Here

SELENAThe park looked different in the daylight.Children’s laughter cut through the warm air. The paths were full of strollers and scooters and parents sitting on benches with coffee cups. Somewhere near the playground a speaker played soft music. Sienna held my hand tightly as we walked, her yellow flowered dress bright against the green of the grass. Behind us, exactly ten feet back, the two guards followed at a respectful but unmistakable distance. I could feel their presence without turning around.Sienna didn’t seem to notice them.She tugged me toward the open stretch of lawn near the small fountain and immediately sat down, pulling me with her. The grass was cool under my palms. She emptied a small bag of chalk and plastic animals onto the ground between us and began arranging them with deep concentration.“This is the dragon’s new house,” she explained, placing a red plastic lion next to a piece of blue chalk. “And this is where Mummy sits. You have to stay here, okay?”“

123. Well, Hello

My tongue felt useless in my mouth.Liam stood three feet away from me with the same eyes I used to wake up next to, and every word I might have said tangled somewhere between my chest and my throat. The park noise continued around us, children shouting, a dog barking, the distant music from the speaker, but it all sounded underwater. Sienna’s arms were still wrapped around my leg. The pink balloon bobbed above us on its ribbon.“We should go,” I managed. My voice came out thinner than I wanted. I looked down at Sienna. “Come on, baby. Let’s go home.”Her head snapped up. The tears from the balloon fight had only just dried.“No.” Her face immediately crumpled. “I don’t want to go. We just got here. You said we could stay.”“Sienna.”“Please.” Her voice wobbled. “I don’t want to leave yet.”The almost-cry in her tone made my stomach twist. I could feel Liam’s attention on the side of my face like heat. I didn’t know how to stand here. I didn’t know how to look at him without the las

124. At least you see me

SELENAThe front door had barely opened when Sienna shot past me.“Daddy!”She ran straight to where Kael stood in the entryway, already home, already waiting. His jacket was off. His sleeves were rolled up. The look on his face told me everything before a single word was spoken, he already knew. Of course he already knew. The guards would have reported the second Liam appeared.Sienna crashed into his legs anyway, too full of her afternoon to notice the temperature in the room.“I made a new friend!” she announced, tipping her head all the way back to see his face. “His name is Nathan. He’s taller than me and he tried to take my balloon but then he gave it back and we ran and ran and he couldn’t even catch me.”Kael’s hand settled on the top of her head. The gesture looked automatic. His eyes, however, were on me.“Nathan,” he repeated.“Yes. And then his daddy came and…”“Go upstairs,” Kael said quietly. “Wash your hands. I’ll come up in a minute.”Sienna blinked at the sudden dism

125. Control Failed

KEAL Sienna’s crying continued on the stairs.High. Broken. The particular sound of a child who had been calling for someone and received nothing. It scraped against the inside of my skull. Selena remained against the wall where she had stepped back from me, face wet, chest rising and falling too fast, eyes still burning with the words she had just thrown like knives. She made no move toward the stairs. Neither did I.For a long moment the three of us existed in separate chambers of the same house.Mummy.Daddy.Why aren’t you answering me?The questions kept coming between sobs. Selena’s hands were curled into fists at her sides. The bruise on her throat looked darker under the entryway light. Every word she had said still hung in the air between us; the comparison to Liam, the loneliness, the ownership, the way she had stood in that park unable to explain what we were. She had looked at me like I was both the problem and the only thing she had left, and the contradiction made somet

126. Still wanting

SELENA I was in the bedroom when he found me.Sienna had finally cried herself into an exhausted sleep on the couch downstairs with her balloon still looped around one wrist. The house had gone quiet in that fragile way it did after something broke. I stood at the window with my arms crossed, staring at nothing, when the door opened behind me.I knew it was him without turning.“Get out,” I said.Kael’s footsteps crossed the room and stopped a few feet away. “No.”“I mean it. I can’t look at you right now.”“Then don’t look.” His voice was low. Rough around the edges. “But I’m not leaving this room.”I turned. He stood near the foot of the bed, sleeves still rolled up, expression stripped down to something raw and controlled at the same time. The fight from the entryway was still on his face. So was everything Sienna had said on the stairs. He looked like a man who had taken several hits and refused to step back from the next one.“I’ll sleep in the guest room,” I said.“No.”“You do

127. The Rules Changed

SELENA His hand was still under my top when the kiss turned harder.I could feel the heat of his palm fully against my bare breast, the rough pad of his thumb dragging over my nipple in slow, deliberate circles that made my hips shift against him without permission. Every pass of his thumb sent another pulse of heat low into my stomach. My back was against the wall. His body kept me there. The hard line of him pressed against my hip, unmistakable, and the knowledge of how close we were to crossing the line only made the kiss messier.Kael made a low sound against my mouth and pushed the fabric of my top higher.I lifted my arms.The blouse came off in one rough motion and landed somewhere near the door. Cool air touched my skin for half a second before his hands replaced it. He dragged the straps of my bra down my shoulders, then reached behind me and unhooked it with a single practiced movement. The material slipped away. I was bare from the waist up in front of him, chest rising

128. A Different Kind of Control

SELENA I couldn’t stay in the bedroom.The walls still held the heat of what had almost happened. My sn still remembered the exact pressure of his mouth and the stroke of his thumb. Every time I closed my eyes I felt his fingers again, the slow push of them, the moment they stopped. The refusal sat in my body like a second pulse.I went downstairs.Sienna was exactly where I had left her, curled on the couch with the balloon ribbon still looped around her wrist like a bracelet. Her mouth was open. Her lashes were wet at the tips from earlier tears. In sleep she looked untouched by everything that had broken between the adults in the house. I pulled the throw blanket higher over her shoulders and stood there longer than necessary, listening to her breathe.The study door was half open.Light spilled into the hallway.I should have gone back upstairs. Instead I walked toward the light and stopped in the doorway.Kael sat behind the desk with a glass of something dark near his hand. H

129. Careful, Selena

SELENA Sienna woke once in the night and asked for water. I brought it to her in the guest room where I had finally carried her, sat on the edge of the mattress until she finished half the glass, and waited until her breathing evened out again. The house stayed quiet. No footsteps in the hallway. No shadow under the door. Kael had said he would be in the study. He had kept his word. That, more than anything, made me restless. I left Sienna sleeping and went back downstairs. The study door was still half open. The desk light was still on. He was exactly where I had left him, only now the glass was empty and his sleeves were pushed higher. He looked up as I entered, and the same careful distance from earlier settled between us again; deliberate, restrained, new. I didn’t stay in the doorway this time. I walked in and closed the door behind me. Kael’s eyes tracked the movement. Something in his posture sharpened. “She’s asleep,” I said. “I know.” I crossed the

130. They Want Sienna.

SELENA Morning came without any resolution.I woke up in the guest room with Sienna’s foot pressed into my stomach and her balloon ribbon still tangled around her wrist. For a few seconds I lay still and listened to the house. No footsteps in the hallway. No low voice from the study. The silence felt intentional, like the whole place was waiting to see who would break first.Sienna stirred when I tried to move.“Is Daddy still here?” she whispered.“I don’t know.”She sat up, hair sticking out on one side, and looked at the closed door with a seriousness that didn’t belong on a four-year-old’s face. “If he’s downstairs, can I stay with you?”“Yes.”That seemed to settle something in her. She climbed into my lap and stayed there until the smell of coffee eventually forced us both downstairs.Kael was in the kitchen.Fully dressed. Tablet on the counter. Coffee already poured. He looked up when we entered, and the air shifted the way it always did around him; subtle, immediate, charge

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