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?"

we were running from one

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

more tears

and

a smile on my face, "I brought you ice

brows lowered and

were you

"Because I missed you?"

pointed a finger

"No lies.

Remember?"

around her and pulled her up in

her arms in an

smiled and picked up the bags I had dropped

bedroom and cold fear slithered down my

new place to live in,

and also

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

hand under the blanket that was on my lap, while mom and Anna slept

things which

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

"Elsa…"

at my mother, my eyes reluctant to leave

as she said, "Did you think

I swallowed.

that if we go back to Black Mountain after so many years Kristian would've forgiven

distance and

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

to my knees twice in the last two

is no

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."

of her words before she

I should live in a women shelter

"Mom, please."

up and walked to

her on the bed, I said, "I

when I get the salary at the end of the month, everything will

need to spend

her veins

but I sniffed my tears back as I said, "And

"Elsa…"

stiffened as if she knew what price

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

health care for their employees and their

been thinking about for the last two days, since I knew that Kristian would take care of

believed him because he hated me, not

have to be

her eyes shimmering with

to sit up

to, right? And you made me strong, without

my face and kissed my

day, you will have all the happiness you deserve and your prince charming will come to make it

I chuckled.

a prince charming

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

vengeance in his cold grey eyes and hate in his

"We have to

rounded the bed to wake my

her head and slowly

grumbled as she wrapped her

"Wake up, Angel…."

a soft voice as

on, there's

sound and I smiled while my mother shook her head making her way to the