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, 1 nodded with a

and I focused back on my daughter who was making a soft cooing sound

had more tears

daughter was safe and unharmed in

smile on my face,

and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

huffed and pointed a

"No lies.

Remember?"

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

arms in an effort to get away

picked up the bags I had dropped as

eyes darted to my bedroom and cold

a new place to live in,

also I couldn't just live here

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

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

things which were three boxes and two small

out of here and I was waiting for the sun to rise

"Elsa…"

my mother, my eyes reluctant to

was troubled as she said, "Did you think about

I swallowed.

had a stupid notion that if we go back to Black

distance and time makes the

was going to tell her that sometimes distance and time festers the

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

no one

man that would've been the reason for

My new boss.

"I don't know."

of her words before she

I should live in a women shelter

"Mom, please."

and walked

her on the bed,

when I get the salary at the end of the

just need to spend

mine, noticing how her veins were standing out

I said, "And I found a

"Elsa…"

knew what price I would've to pay for

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

free health care

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

because

shouldn't have to be this strong,

eyes shimmering with

helped her to sit up and hugged her

right? And you made me

face and kissed my

happiness you deserve and your prince charming

I chuckled.

dreaming about a prince charming long time

prince charming looked at me like the villain of the story but then again he wasn't as charming

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

have to

the bed to wake

slipped my hand under her head and slowly pulled her up into

she wrapped her arms

"Wake up, Angel…."

soft voice as I caressed her

there's my

made an annoyed sound and I smiled while my mother shook her head making her way to