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?"

were running from one place to another, 1 nodded

making a soft cooing sound like I do for her

had more tears running

that my daughter was safe and unharmed in front of me,

tears and put a smile on my face, "I brought

brows lowered and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

and pointed a finger

"No lies.

Remember?"

arm around her and pulled her up in my arms as

flung her arms in an effort to get away from

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

bedroom and cold

have to find a new place to

would save me time and also I couldn't

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

my hand under the blanket that was on

things which were three

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

"Elsa…"

head to look at my mother, my

was troubled as she said, "Did you

I swallowed.

notion that if we go back to Black Mountain after so many

her, distance and time makes the

distance and time festers the

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

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 to that place was

My new boss.

"I don't know."

trailed off and then thought of her words before she

should live in a women shelter

"Mom, please."

and

the bed, I

salary at the end of the month, everything

need to spend a

her hand in mine, noticing how her veins were standing out and her skin was

eyes stung but I sniffed my tears back as I said, "And I found

"Elsa…"

knew what price I would've to

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

health care

for the last two days, since I knew that Kristian would take care

I believed him because he hated me,

have to be

her eyes shimmering with

to sit up and

made me

my face

deserve and your prince charming will

I chuckled.

had stopped dreaming about a

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

in his cold grey eyes and

"We have to

rounded the bed

and

she wrapped her arms

"Wake up, Angel…."

voice

on, there's my good

my mother shook her head making her way to the