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?"

why we were running from one place to another, 1 nodded with a

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

had more tears

and unharmed in front of me, I pulled back and looked into

tears and put a smile on my face,

brows lowered and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

huffed and pointed

"No lies.

Remember?"

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

arms in an effort to get away

bags I had dropped

bedroom and cold fear slithered down

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

and also I couldn't just live

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

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

our things which were three

was

"Elsa…"

to look at my mother, my eyes reluctant to leave

she said, "Did

I swallowed.

we go back to Black Mountain after so many years

her, distance and

time festers the wound more,

the same man who had brought me to my knees twice in the last two

is no one there,

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

My new boss.

"I don't know."

thought of her words before she said,

live in a women

"Mom, please."

and

on the bed,

salary at the end of the month, everything

to spend a

noticing how her veins were standing out and her skin

back as I said, "And I found a way to have

"Elsa…"

what price I would've to pay for

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

care

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

believed him because he hated

shouldn't have to be this

her eyes shimmering

sit up and hugged

made me strong, without you I wouldn't have

face and kissed

happiness you deserve and your prince charming will come

I chuckled.

dreaming about a prince charming long

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

in his cold grey eyes and

have to

and rounded the bed

under her head and slowly pulled her up into my

grumbled as she wrapped

"Wake up, Angel…."

soft voice as

there's

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