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?"

knew why we were running from one place to another,

on my daughter who was making a soft cooing sound like I do for her as she rubbed my

had more tears running

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

and put a smile on my

brows lowered and her

were you

"Because I missed you?"

and pointed a

"No lies.

Remember?"

my arm around her and pulled her up in my

giggled and flung her arms in an effort to get away

the bags I had dropped as we made

eyes darted to my bedroom and cold

have to find a new place to live in, maybe close

save me time and also I couldn't

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

a chair in mom's room, with a knife clutched in my hand under the blanket that was on my

things which were three boxes and two small

and I was waiting for the sun

"Elsa…"

my head to look at my mother, my eyes reluctant to leave my daughter's

mother's pale gaze was troubled as she

I swallowed.

we go back to Black Mountain after so

to her, distance and time makes the

that sometimes distance and time

man she thought would help us was the same man who had brought me to my knees twice in the last two days in the name of the payback that he

no

was because the man that would've been the reason for me to go back to that

My new boss.

"I don't know."

and then thought of her words before she said,

in a

"Mom, please."

stood up and walked to

bed, I said, "I

at the end of the month, everything will be

to spend

in mine, noticing how her veins were standing out and her

my tears back as I said, "And I found a

"Elsa…"

if she knew what price I would've to

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

free health care for their employees and

was one I had been thinking about for the last two days, since

him because he hated me, not

have to be this

rasped, her eyes

to sit

made me strong, without you I

face

the happiness you deserve

I chuckled.

stopped dreaming about a prince charming long

wasn't as charming as one would think to begin with, he was always intense and

now he was the devil with vengeance in his cold

have

and rounded the

her head and slowly pulled her

wrapped

"Wake up, Angel…."

in a soft voice as

there's my good

and I smiled while my mother shook her head making her way to