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

who was making a soft cooing sound

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 angelic

put a smile on my face,

lowered and her nose

you crying,

"Because I missed you?"

and pointed a finger at

"No lies.

Remember?"

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

and flung her arms in an effort to

dropped as we made our way to the small living

eyes darted to my bedroom and cold

have to find a new place to live

time and also I couldn't just live

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

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

packed all of our things which were three boxes and two

out of here and I was waiting for the

"Elsa…"

turned my head to look at my mother, my eyes reluctant to leave my

she said, "Did you think

I swallowed.

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

her, distance and time makes the heart

sometimes distance and time festers the wound

to my knees twice in the last

is no one

much true 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."

then thought of her words before she said, "Anna

should live in a women

"Mom, please."

stood up and

bed, I said, "I

when I get the salary at the

to

noticing how her veins were standing out and her

my tears back as I said, "And I found a

"Elsa…"

as if she knew what price I would've to

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

company provides free health care for their employees

been thinking about for the last two days, since I knew that Kristian would take care of my

him because he hated

shouldn't have to be this strong,

rasped, her eyes shimmering

her to sit up and

you made me

cupped my face and kissed my

the happiness you deserve and your prince

I chuckled.

had stopped dreaming about a prince charming

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

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

have to

the bed to

my hand under her head and slowly pulled her up into my

she wrapped her

"Wake up, Angel…."

a soft voice as I caressed

there's my good

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