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?"

she knew why we were running from one place

was making a soft

tears running

and unharmed in front of me, I pulled back and

a smile on my

brows lowered and her

you crying,

"Because I missed you?"

and pointed a

"No lies.

Remember?"

pulled her up in my arms as I used

giggled and flung her arms in an effort to

I had dropped as we made our way to the small living

eyes darted to my bedroom and cold fear slithered

a new place to live in, maybe close to the

also I couldn't just

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

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

had packed all of our things which were three boxes and

had to get out of here and I was waiting for the sun

"Elsa…"

to look at my mother, my eyes reluctant to leave my

mother's pale gaze was troubled as she said, "Did you

I swallowed.

stupid notion that if we go back

to her, distance and time makes the

that sometimes distance and time festers the wound more, not giving it a chance to completely

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

is no

much true that was because the man that would've been the

My new boss.

"I don't know."

trailed off and then thought of her words before she

in a women

"Mom, please."

stood up and walked

the bed, I said, "I have

the salary at the end of the

need to

in mine, noticing how her veins were standing out and

I said, "And I found a way to have

"Elsa…"

stiffened as if she knew what price I would've to pay for

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

free health care for their employees and their

about for the last two days, since I knew that Kristian

him because he hated me,

shouldn't have to be this strong,

rasped, her eyes

helped her to sit

made me strong, without

my face and

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

I chuckled.

a

then again he wasn't as charming as one would think

the devil with vengeance in his cold

"We have to

the bed to wake

hand under her head and slowly pulled her up into my

as she wrapped

"Wake up, Angel…."

voice as

on, there's my

made an annoyed sound and I smiled while my