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,

and I focused back on my daughter who was making a soft cooing sound like I do for her

act had more tears running

my daughter was safe and unharmed in front of me, I pulled

smile on my face, "I

lowered and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

huffed and pointed a finger

"No lies.

Remember?"

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

and flung her arms in an effort

picked up the bags I had dropped as we made our way to the

to my bedroom and cold

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

also I couldn't just live here

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

room, with a knife clutched in my hand

all of our things which were three boxes and

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

"Elsa…"

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

she said, "Did

I swallowed.

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

and

going to tell her that sometimes distance and time festers the wound more, not giving

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

no

how much true that was because the man that would've been the reason for me to go back to that place was

My new boss.

"I don't know."

of her words before she said, "Anna

I should live in a women

"Mom, please."

and

her on the bed, I said, "I have a

at the end of the month, everything

to spend

how her veins were standing out and

sniffed my tears back as I said, "And

"Elsa…"

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

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

care for their

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

because

to

her eyes shimmering with

helped her to sit up and hugged her

has to, right? And you made me strong, without you

cupped my face

happiness you deserve and

I chuckled.

stopped dreaming about a prince charming

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

was the devil with vengeance in his cold grey eyes and hate

have to

and rounded the bed to wake my

hand under her head and slowly pulled her

she wrapped

"Wake up, Angel…."

a soft voice as I caressed her

there's my good

annoyed sound and I smiled while my mother