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 with a tight

face fell and I focused back on my daughter who was making a soft cooing sound like I do for her as she rubbed my

more tears running

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

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

lowered and

were you crying,

"Because I missed you?"

huffed and pointed a

"No lies.

Remember?"

her up in my arms as I used

and flung her arms in

bags I had dropped as we

my bedroom and cold fear slithered down

to live in, maybe close to the

me time and also I couldn't just live

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

a knife clutched in my hand under the blanket that was on my lap, while mom and Anna

packed all of our things which were three

here and I was waiting for the sun to

"Elsa…"

mother, my eyes reluctant to

as she said, "Did

I swallowed.

notion that if we go back to Black Mountain after so

and time makes

and time festers the wound more,

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

is no

her 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, "Anna shouldn't suffer

I should live in

"Mom, please."

and walked to

the bed, I said,

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

to

noticing how her veins were standing out and her skin was

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

"Elsa…"

stiffened as if she knew what price I would've to pay for

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

provides free health care for their employees and their

for the last two days, since I knew that Kristian

him because he hated me,

to be this

rasped, her eyes

her to sit up and hugged her

you made me strong, without you I wouldn't

face

will have all the happiness you deserve and

I chuckled.

a prince charming long time

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

now he was the devil with vengeance in his cold grey eyes and hate in

have

the

and slowly pulled her up into my

wrapped her arms around

"Wake up, Angel…."

voice as I caressed

there's

I smiled while my mother shook her head