Blackmailed For Love

I entered the apartment with one last look over my shoulder, making sure that Kristian didn't follow me.

My heart beat like crazy in my chest and my whole body still hummed from his closeness, the way he had pressed into my body reminding me of the nights we had spent in each other's arms, in secret- grabbing forbidden moments away from public eyes.

Losing ourselves in each other.

My innocent love and his fierce possession.

We had burned for each other.

Two poles desperate to connect.

But the universe had its way and pulled us apart.

4 I took a deep breath to control my emotions and took a step further into the apartment only to pause when my foot landed on something.

When I looked down I found a white envelope without any markings.

Cautiously, I picked it up and shuddered at the way the back of my neck tingled with foreboding.

I tore the envelope and upended its contents in my palm.

All the breath left my lungs as the three photos landed in my palm.

One of me in the diner.

The other with Anna outside this building.

And another that sent a shiver of revulsion and fear through me, it was of me sleeping in my bed with my daughter.

2 The photos slipped from my nerveless fingers as apprehension gripped me, only to up in its intensity when my eyes landed on the back of one of the photos.

"You should have gotten rid of her.

I don't like the reminder of the fact that someone had you before me.

Don't worry, I have a solution for it."

2 I swallowed the bile, my throat closing up and a new kind of terror tore through me as an anguished cry left me.

"Anna!"

Footsteps echoed and then two pairs of legs came in front of me.

I hadn't realized I had dropped down on my knees.

"Mama…"

My sweet angel touched my cheek with her small hand and I looked up to find her grey eyes staring back at me with concern.

"Mama, you are crying."

I grabbed her and hugged her tight to me.

"Anna… My angel…"

I cupped her face and kissed her, my emotions going out of control.

I had thought I had left the sick stalker behind when I changed cities.

He had left veiled threats before but now he was openly threatening my daughter.

I didn't know who it was and why he had targeted me but I couldn't let him harm my daughter.

Even the thought broke me apart.

"Hush… Mama, no crying."

She frowned down at me, admonishing me.

I sniffled on hearing her tight voice.

My little domineering angel.

A soft hand caressed my head and I looked up to find my mother standing thëre looking frail and tired in her blue nightgown.

She only asked one thing, "Again?"

one place to another, 1 nodded

back on my daughter who was making a soft cooing

act had more tears

a while when my heart was content that my daughter was safe and

smile on

brows lowered and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

and pointed a

"No lies.

Remember?"

my arm around her and pulled her up in my arms as I used my

flung her arms in an effort to get away from

and picked up the bags I had dropped as we made our

darted to my bedroom and cold fear slithered

to find a new place to live in,

would save me time and also I couldn't

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

hand under the blanket

had packed all of our things which were three boxes and two small

of here and I was waiting for the sun to rise so we could

"Elsa…"

turned my head to look at my mother,

she said, "Did you

I swallowed.

had a stupid notion that if we go back to Black Mountain

to her, distance and time makes

going to tell her that sometimes distance and time

me to my knees twice in the last two days in the name of

is no one

answered her, not telling her how much true that was because the man that would've been the reason for me to go back

My new boss.

"I don't know."

words before she

in a women shelter

"Mom, please."

and

the bed, I

at the end of

to spend

hand in mine, noticing how her veins

I sniffed my tears back as I said, "And I found a way to have

"Elsa…"

what

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

care for their employees and their

two days, since

believed him because he hated

shouldn't have to be this strong,

her eyes shimmering

to sit

made me strong, without you I wouldn't have

my face and kissed

will have all the happiness you deserve and your prince charming will come to make it

I chuckled.

stopped dreaming about a prince charming long time

my prince charming looked at me like the villain of the story but then again he wasn't as charming as one would think to begin with, he was always

in his cold grey eyes and hate in his

have

rounded the bed to wake

head and slowly

as she wrapped her

"Wake up, Angel…."

voice as I caressed

there's

smiled while my