Blackmailed For Love

"I don’t like it here.I don’t!"

I stomped my foot as Mama opened the small bag and started to take our clothes out.

"Mama!"

"Hush, now, my pretty angel."

She always called me that but sometimes I wished that she wouldn't, not because I hated it but because I never felt like an angel.

And another reason was because my Mama named me after a Princess who became a queen, and because of that all the students at my previous school] made fun of me.

Spoiler alert, we lived in a trailer park and in no way I was a princess.

She grabbed a few clothes and went to arrange them in the big wooden cupboard near the window.

When she turned around, she came straight to me and crouched down.

My mother had hair like mine, silver with the hint of pink and our eyes were the same too, big and blue.

She took my small] hands in hers, her hands were rough from all the work she does.

"You know we couldn’t live there anymore, don't you?"

head, because I didn’t know.I didn't

men wanted my father and

that smelled very bad.I said so to my Mama,

as she said, "But what if they did.I love you so much, my sweet angel, I'd never let anyone hurt you, you

my lips

don’t want him to hurt you anymore.We should’ve left him

She ruffled my hair.

talk like that.He’s your father and he promised that he'd

all the time, but my Mama seemed

more when you start the new school.This is a very good school, sweet angel, you will get to

I nodded.

"Yes, Marna."

us and we both turned around to see a

we came to live in the small town of Black Mountains with its own scenic beauty and scary forests, and one such forest was outside our little cottage that was assigned to us, surrounding

of control to our lives, most importantly to run away from my father’s debts, my Mama had taken a job as a housekeeper for

of me, I wondered not for the hundredth time why Mama had

boy in his ironed jeans and branded shirt looked the same as the boys who had bullied me

braced for him to say something cruel and was surprised when he stepped inside and said, "Mrs Huxley, Mom is asking for

at the boy and

it now.What if she has something

gone,