Blackmailed For Love

Chapter 15: Tell me a secret

 I didn't know what I was doing here this late in the night.

This time there was no bet involved for me to prove that I wasn't a wuss.

No, this time something else compelled me to sneak out of our little cottage and enter this dark forest that had frightened me the first time.

Or maybe to look for someone.

But it doesn't frighten me as before or maybe it does but I knew that there was someone else who would save me from wild predators.

Leaves crunched behind me and I whirled around with my hand on my heart.

The moment my eyes met his glittering greys my heart started beating for entirely different reasons.

"I know for a fact that there's no bet today.Then what's the reason for your visit here."

He said as he leaned against a tree and slipped his hand in his pocket.

I licked my lips and his eyes dropped to my mouth for a second before they came back to meet mine and he arched a dark brow.

I said, "I just came for a… walk?"

His lips twitched and he asked, "In the middle of the night?"

I shrugged.

"I couldn't sleep.And you are one to talk when you yourself are here."

"I couldn't sleep either."

"Why?"

"A lot in my mind."

I took a step toward him, an unseen thread pulling me to him.

"Want to share.You can, I won't tell anyone."

He looked at me for a long moment and then said, "I will if you tell me a secret."

I frowned at him.

"But I don't have secrets."

"Everyone has secrets, little girl."

"Do you?"

He tilted his head to the side in agreement and asked, "So… Want to trade?"

I chewed on my bottom lip, for a long minute thinking about what kind of secret I could tell him.

I really did not have something that would be secret for someone like him.

But I wanted to know about his secret, so I nodded.

"Fine.Tell me."

"Every time I close my eyes or try to sleep, I feel like someone would suffocate me in my sleep."

I froze.

My whole body jerked with his words.

How could someone feel like that? "Why?"

The question slipped before I could think about it.

The corner of his lips twitched up.

He didn't look fazed by what he said as much as I felt wanted to do something for him.

to know

or even if he does it? "That was

Now, it's your turn."

didn't think my secret could match his but I told him

beauty mark on the left side

dark grey eyes on me like my

voice, I confessed, "I didn't

you I didn't

He started walking.

for me but then

was angry for telling me a big secret of his and didn't get anything like that in

when I heard his footsteps stop behind me and

my lips and I turned around, seeing that he was already several steps away I almost ran to reach

his side, we walked for quite some time and then I blurted out, "I think

slowed and

he was waiting for me to continue,

"I am

I don't know how to

turned to

eyes touched my face like a caress and he said, "You don't

can ignore

I giggled.

I tucked a loose strand

"Why?"

his head and replied, "I will keep

disagreeable noise and he asked, "Why do you have a crush on this guy?

and thought about my answer and

"Yes.

He's in my class.

he's not my

feet, at the uneven forest floor as I said, "I just

He seemed untouchable.

I looked

he was and

to touch

know him

and then he turned to me and said, "If he hasn't noticed you yet

can you say

asked but before he could answer a shriek left my mouth

curse echoed around us as he crouched down and helped

"Are you okay?"

brows knotted

as I sat back on my arse on the

blood on my left knee with dirt and tiny twigs on

looked like a small scratch it pained

"Let me see…"

moment later his one hand cupped the back of my knee as his

wearing a

ridden up to

them down, but couldn't do it entirely as he was still grazing

and said, "I think I'm alright, it's only a little bit of a

"It's not."

and I gasped when I saw a cut on the side of

least six inches and it was the

"Oh.."

eyes at the bloody wound, only to snap them open when I was suddenly

"What,"

his arms and I quickly slipped my arms around his neck, only because I was afraid

"You can't walk.

clean this and band-aid

else except how his

liked

I said, "No.

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