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?"

one place to another,

who was making a soft cooing sound like

act had more tears

while 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 on my face, "I brought you ice

lowered and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

pointed a

"No lies.

Remember?"

up in my arms as I used my other hand to tickle her

in an effort

I had dropped

to my bedroom and cold fear

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.

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

our things which were three boxes and two small

get out of here and I was waiting for the sun

"Elsa…"

mother, my eyes reluctant

was troubled as she said, "Did you

I swallowed.

had a stupid notion that if we go back

distance and time makes

who was going to tell her that sometimes distance and time festers the wound more, not

to my knees twice in the

is no one

not telling her how much true that was because the man that would've been the reason for me

My new boss.

"I don't know."

of her words before she

in a women

"Mom, please."

up and walked to

her on the bed, I

the end of the month, everything will be

just need to spend a

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

I sniffed my tears back as I said, "And I found a way to

"Elsa…"

as if she knew what

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

care for their employees

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

believed him because

to

eyes

helped her to sit up

made me strong, without you I wouldn't have

face and kissed my

will have all the happiness you deserve and your prince charming will

I chuckled.

about a prince charming

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

now he was the devil with vengeance in

have to

the

head and slowly

grumbled as she wrapped her

"Wake up, Angel…."

soft voice as I caressed

on, there's my good

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