Blackmailed For Love

It had been two hours since I stood across the street and watched her through the window of some run down diner in which she just disappeared and then after talking to some old man who flung his hands in the air as he talked, she grabbed an apron and started working.

Not for the first time, I looked around myself and once again I was hit with disbelief and my anger mounted.

She came here to work in the diner after working full time in my office.

I didn't know what kind of debt she was in or if it was just about her mother's health expenses, but then didn't I tell her that I would bear the expenses for it.

I just hoped for her fucking sake that she didn't live somewhere around here.

I took in the dark streets, decades old buildings needing repairs, drunkards roaming around the sidewalk and the stench in the air, and I couldn't imagine her living here.

Maybe she had just come here to help that old man out.

Or maybe, a low growl emerged from my throat when a man grabbed her arse as she passed by his table.

For fuck's sake.

It took everything in me not to barge in and tear his hand off his body but then she would see me and God knows where she would run to so I wouldn't know exactly where she lived.

After one more hour that felt like an eternity having to watch her run from one table to another and to be touched by all these men so she would get more tips, I was at my limits when she walked around the counter and untied her apron.

She talked to the old man, took her money and then grabbed three brown bags from under the counter and made her way toward the door.

1 I turned around so she wouldn't see my face.

After a moment, I followed her.

Five minutes later, she entered a brown brick building that didn't even have front lights on, or gate for that matter.

And it looked like it had been here before humankind came into existence.

Irritated and feeling sick, I entered after her.

The floor was wet and my shoes made a splashing sound.

Disgusted, I turned to the echo of her footsteps, but then she looked over her shoulder.

If she recognised me I couldn't tell but her footsteps hurried and she jogged to the stairs at the end of the corridor.

I didn't run, I walked after her in slow steps.

2 When I reached the stairs, she was rounding the first flight.

I stepped up two stairs at a time and caught her arm.

She screamed bloody murder and I had to clasp my hand over her mouth as I slammed her back against the wall, not that I doubted anyone would come for her rescue here even if I was a serial killer.

The bulb above us flickered like we were in a horror movie.

She blinked big blue eyes at me.

Terrified and filled with a sheen of panic.

But when she saw me, her whole body shuddered in relief only to stiffen when I stepped back.

She still clutched her bags in her hands and brought them in front of her as if putting something between us as fragile as those paper bags would provide her safety.

She glared at me and demanded, "What the hell are you doing here?".

"Following you.

You are a liar, little girl.

And I see that hasn't changed a bit."

She licked her dry lip and mouthed off, "I thought some pervert was coming after me but then I wasn't wrong, was I?"

I narrowed my eyes at her and grabbed her face hard.

"You lied on your application form.

And tell me one thing, what happened to all the money you conned from me and other men?"

"I don't owe you any explanation, Kristian.

And stop touching me."

She was breathing hard and even now there was fear in her eyes.

"This is not your office where you can rule me."

I smiled.

contract before you signed

to and whenever, wherever I want to, little

a deep breath when I released

lash out at me and then

"Please, Kristian,"

you to

are not

I arched a brow.

and said through

"Please, sir, not here.

snap at me and take your revenge tomorrow when I come to

don't want my

told her who

she should know, as I remember

at me, those eyes turning

the

like this version of

guess, your mother and I both have

head and

sir? I need

"Then let's go.

you

She jerked back.

and her bottom lip trembled before she

than

"No."

head as

"Why?"

is not a place you

is not a

"Careful, sir.

sound like you

she was

memory from the past resurfaced when she had

do care for the woman I

whore deserves

you are

stop

She snapped.

time her blue eyes were hard and furious as she glared at

I know what you think about

throw it in my

"Why not?"

back against

and the pain of the past that I could

"You behaved like one.

to have my pound of flesh when I gave you a chance to run away but now that here you are and I have to see your

2 She stepped closer.

me in the dirty and

"Why, are you afraid you'd fall

the intensity like someone

wanted to fucking

clenched teeth, barely controlling myself,

I won't.

to have more money, you had agreed

you worry,

whore I will

you must've difficulty getting women to

and the blood in my veins

throat and

Soon.

stepped back from

"Go.

knees and make you earn more of the money you love so

in the forest and she wasn't at her

had happened in the school it had felt like someone had

My little girl.

had run from my bedroom in the main house to find her, to see

teach those bastards a lesson later but for now I had

sure

wooden door open to the small

back to the wall, her arms wrapped