Chloe stared at the key still clutched in her palm. The rain had stopped. The house was utterly silent.
She had been cleaning out the garage — against Irene’s suggestion — when a rusted toolbox fell from a high shelf. Inside, beneath a cracked leather glove, lay a single brass key with a tag marked
“You look tired, sweetheart,” Irene said, her voice a low, warm blade. “You should sleep in the east bedroom tonight. The rain helps with dreams.”
Chloe shook her head. “That’s not — he was sick, but he never —” PureTaboo - Aaliyah Love- Kristen Scott -The In...
“Am I?” Irene reached out and brushed a strand of hair from Chloe’s face. “You had nightmares for years. You wet the bed until you were fourteen. You flinched every time a man raised his voice. That wasn’t imagination, Chloe. That was memory. And I buried it for you — in this room. Every photo, every date, every notation. I took the pain and put it in these walls so you could live.”
Chloe didn’t blink. She had known. Her father, Richard, had spent the last three years of his life in a fog of opioids and guilt. In the end, he had given everything to Irene — not out of love, Chloe suspected, but out of fear.
At the bottom, a single bulb illuminated a room that was not flooded. It was a bedroom — small, windowless, immaculate. A brass bed with white sheets. A nightstand with a glass of water. And on the wall, photographs: Chloe at twelve, Chloe at fifteen, Chloe at her high school graduation. Beneath each photo, a date and a notation in Irene’s handwriting. Chloe stared at the key still clutched in her palm
Chloe’s breath came in short gasps. “You’re insane.”
“First time she called me Mom.” “Night she tried to run away.” “The day she stopped laughing.”
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Chloe had not slept in the east bedroom since she was seventeen — since the night she heard the floorboards creak outside her door and saw Irene’s silhouette pause, then continue down the hall.
Irene’s mask cracked — just for a second. “Because he had you. And I couldn’t save you from the outside.”
The basement of the main house had always been locked. Irene said it was flooded, unstable. Chloe had believed her.
“I’d rather stay in the guest house,” Chloe replied.