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?"

why we were running from one

back on my daughter who was making a

tears running down my

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

a smile on my face, "I brought

and her nose

you

"Because I missed you?"

pointed a finger

"No lies.

Remember?"

her up in my arms

her arms in an effort to get away from

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

and cold fear slithered

find a new place to live in, maybe close

also I couldn't just

I didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

my night in a chair in mom's room, with a knife clutched in my hand under the blanket that was on my lap, while mom

all of our things which were three boxes and two

had to get out of here and I was waiting for the sun to rise so we

"Elsa…"

my mother, my

as she said, "Did you think about

I swallowed.

notion that if we go back to Black Mountain after so many years Kristian

distance and time makes the heart

and time festers the wound more, not giving it a chance to completely

same man who had brought me to my knees twice in the last two days in the

no one there,

true that was because the man that would've been the reason for

My new boss.

"I don't know."

off and then thought of her words before she said,

in a

"Mom, please."

and

on the bed,

salary at the end

to spend

in mine, noticing how her veins were standing

stung but I sniffed my tears back as I said, "And I found a

"Elsa…"

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

I shook my head.

"It's my job.

free health care for their employees

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

I believed him because he hated me, not

have to be

her eyes

sit up and hugged

And you made me strong, without

cupped my face

deserve and

I chuckled.

dreaming about a prince charming

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

now he was the devil with vengeance in his cold

"We have to

rounded the bed to

head and

she wrapped her arms around

"Wake up, Angel…."

said in a soft voice as I caressed her

there's my good

annoyed sound and I smiled while my