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

on my daughter who was making a soft cooing sound like I do for

act had more tears running down

daughter was safe and

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

lowered and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

pointed a finger at

"No lies.

Remember?"

I curled my arm around her and pulled her up in my arms as I used my other hand to

and flung her arms in an effort to get

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

to my bedroom and cold fear

find a new place to

save me time and also I couldn't just

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

hand under the blanket that was on

had packed all of our things which were three boxes

get out of here and I was

"Elsa…"

look at my mother, my eyes reluctant to

was troubled as she

I swallowed.

mother had a stupid notion that if we go back to

distance and time makes

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

the man she thought 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

is no one there,

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

My new boss.

"I don't know."

then thought of her words before she said, "Anna

I should live in a women

"Mom, please."

and walked

beside her on the bed,

salary at the end of the month, everything will

just need to

noticing how her veins were standing out and

as I

"Elsa…"

knew what price I would've to

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

free health care for their employees and

about for the last two days, since I

I believed him because he hated me,

have to

her eyes

helped her to sit up and hugged her

you made me

cupped my face

day, you will have all the happiness you deserve and your prince charming will come to

I chuckled.

about a

like the villain of the story but then again he wasn't as

was the devil with vengeance in his cold grey eyes

"We have to

the bed to wake

her head and slowly pulled her up into

she wrapped

"Wake up, Angel…."

in a soft voice

there's my

my mother shook her head making her way