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?"

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

on my daughter who was making a soft cooing sound

act had more tears running down my

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

a smile

and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

pointed

"No lies.

Remember?"

her and pulled her up in my arms as

in

the bags I had dropped as we made our way

darted to my bedroom and cold

to find a new place to live in, maybe close

me time and also I couldn't just live

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

my hand under the blanket that was on my

which

of here and I was waiting for the

"Elsa…"

my mother, my eyes

she

I swallowed.

mother had a stupid notion that if we go back to Black Mountain after

her, distance and time makes the heart

was going to tell her that sometimes distance and time

me to my knees twice in the last two days in the name

is no one there,

telling her how much true that was because the man that would've been the reason for me to go

My new boss.

"I don't know."

words before she

should live in a women

"Mom, please."

and walked to

on the bed, I said,

salary at the end of the month,

just need to spend

noticing how her veins were standing out and her skin was so

sniffed my tears back as I said,

"Elsa…"

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

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

company provides free health care

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

believed him because he

to

eyes shimmering with

to sit up and hugged her

you made me strong, without you

face and

the happiness you deserve and your prince charming will come to

I chuckled.

had stopped dreaming about a prince

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

the devil with vengeance in his cold grey

have to

rounded the

head and slowly pulled her

grumbled as she wrapped her arms around

"Wake up, Angel…."

in a soft voice as I

on, there's my

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