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.

wanted to know how he

does it?

Now, it's your turn."

secret could match

a beauty mark on the left side

words made his eyes darken and he narrowed those dark grey eyes on me like my secret made

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

I didn't

He started walking.

coming for me but then he

slumped as I thought that he was angry for telling me a big

back home when I heard his

A smile stretched across my lips and I turned around, seeing that he

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

footsteps slowed and he

was waiting for

said, "I am

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

finally turned

dark eyes touched my face like a caress and he said,

one can

I giggled.

I tucked a loose strand behind my

"Why?"

his head and replied, "I will keep

disagreeable noise and he asked, "Why do you have a crush

licked my lips and thought about my answer

"Yes.

He's in my class.

he's not

at my feet, at the uneven forest floor

He seemed untouchable.

I looked at his

he was and

want to

to know him

as his jaw clenched and then he turned to me and said,

can you

mouth as I stumbled over a

echoed around us as he crouched

"Are you okay?"

his brows knotted

sat back on my arse on the uneven ground and looked

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

it looked like a small scratch it

"Let me see…"

his one hand cupped the back of my knee as his other rested on my calf and he dipped his head down to inspect

wearing

ridden up to

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

and said, "I think I'm alright, it's

"It's not."

leg around and I gasped when I saw a cut

least six inches and it was

"Oh.."

squeezed my eyes at the bloody wound, only to snap

"What,"

me up in his arms and I quickly slipped my arms around

"You can't walk.

help you clean this and band-aid

except how his scent bombarded my senses and how his

how much I liked being in

I said, "No.

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