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?"

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

was making a soft cooing sound like I do

tears

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

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

lowered and

you crying,

"Because I missed you?"

and pointed a finger

"No lies.

Remember?"

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

arms in an

and picked up the bags I had dropped as we made our way to the small

eyes darted to my bedroom and cold fear

a new place to live in,

me time and also I couldn't just

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

hand under the blanket

which were

here and I was waiting for the sun to rise so we could

"Elsa…"

look at my mother, my eyes reluctant to

gaze was troubled as she said, "Did

I swallowed.

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

to her, distance and time makes

her that sometimes distance and time festers the

would help us was the same man who had brought me to my knees twice in the last two days in the name of the payback that

no one there,

that was because the man that would've been the reason for me to go back to that place was here in New

My new boss.

"I don't know."

words before she said, "Anna shouldn't

in

"Mom, please."

up and walked

the bed, I said, "I have

the salary at the end of the

to spend

in mine, noticing how her veins were standing

sniffed my tears back as I said, "And I

"Elsa…"

knew what price I would've to pay

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

company provides free health care

had been thinking about for the last two days, since

him because he hated me,

shouldn't have to be this strong,

eyes shimmering with

her to sit up and

made me strong, without you I

cupped my face and kissed my

all the happiness you deserve and your prince charming will come to make

I chuckled.

a prince charming

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

the devil with vengeance in his cold grey eyes and

"We have

rounded the bed to wake

under her head and slowly pulled her up into

wrapped

"Wake up, Angel…."

voice as I

on, there's

my mother shook her head making her way to