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.

know how

it?

Now, it's your turn."

match his

have a beauty mark on

eyes darken and he narrowed those dark grey eyes on

voice, I confessed, "I didn't know what to tell

I

He started walking.

was coming for me but

for telling me a big secret of his and didn't

was about to walk and go back home when I heard his footsteps stop behind me and

that he was already several steps away

walked for quite some time and then I blurted

and he remained

I got that he was waiting for me to continue,

said, "I am not sure

haven't talked to him much and I don't know

turned to

touched my face like a caress and he said, "You don't have to do anything to get anyone's attention, little

one can ignore

I giggled.

shy, I tucked a

"Why?"

shook his head and replied, "I will

he asked, "Why do you have a crush

thought about my answer and

"Yes.

He's in my class.

not my

down at my feet, at the uneven forest floor as I said,

He seemed untouchable.

want to…? I looked

he was and how far he

to

know

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

can you say

before he could answer a shriek left my mouth as I stumbled over a rock and fell

curse echoed around us as he crouched down and

"Are you okay?"

asked, his brows knotted

arse on the uneven ground and

skinned them and there was a tiny bit of blood on my left knee with dirt and

a small

"Let me see…"

my hands away and a moment later his one hand cupped the back of my knee as his

wearing a

ridden up

couldn't do it entirely as he

my dry throat and said, "I think I'm alright, it's only a little

"It's not."

my mouth to disagree when he turned my leg around and I gasped when I saw a cut on

six inches and it was the

"Oh.."

my eyes at the bloody wound, only to snap them open

"What,"

my arms around his

"You can't walk.

clean this and band-aid

else except how his scent bombarded my

how much I liked being in

I said, "No.

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