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

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

act had more tears running down

when my heart was content that my daughter was safe and unharmed in front of me, I pulled back and looked into her

a smile

lowered and her nose

were you

"Because I missed you?"

pointed

"No lies.

Remember?"

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

flung her arms in an effort to get away from

up the bags I had dropped as we made our way

darted to my bedroom and cold fear slithered down

new place to live in, maybe close to

and also I

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

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

packed all of our things which were

I was waiting for the sun to rise so we could

"Elsa…"

mother,

as she said, "Did you think about

I swallowed.

notion that if we go back to Black Mountain

distance and time

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

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

is no

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

My new boss.

"I don't know."

thought of her words before she said, "Anna shouldn't suffer like this,

I should live in a

"Mom, please."

stood up and walked

her on the bed,

get the salary at the

need to

noticing how her veins were standing out

tears back as I said, "And I found a

"Elsa…"

stiffened as if she knew what price

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

care

thinking about for the last two days, since I knew

believed him because

have to

her eyes shimmering with

helped her to sit up and

me strong, without you I wouldn't

cupped my face and

day, you will have all the happiness you deserve

I chuckled.

had stopped dreaming about a prince charming

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

he was the devil with vengeance in his

have

the

hand under her head and slowly pulled

she wrapped her arms

"Wake up, Angel…."

voice as I

on, there's

made an annoyed sound and I smiled while my