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 how

relax or even if he does it?

Now, it's your turn."

didn't think my secret could match his but

on the left side

he narrowed those dark grey eyes on me

I confessed, "I

I didn't

He started walking.

was coming for me but then

thought that he was angry for telling me a big secret

go back home when I heard his

A smile stretched across my lips and I turned around, seeing that he was already several steps

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

and

waiting for me to continue, so I

said, "I am not sure

to him much and I

turned to

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

one can ignore

I giggled.

tucked a loose

"Why?"

and replied, "I will keep it a

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

about my answer and decided to

"Yes.

He's in my class.

not my

looked down at my feet, at the uneven forest floor as I said, "I just like

He seemed untouchable.

I want to…? I

he was and how far he

want to

to know him

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

you

a shriek left my mouth as I stumbled over a rock and fell on

echoed around us as he crouched down and helped

"Are you okay?"

his brows knotted in

as I sat back on my arse on

them and there was a tiny bit of blood on

even as it looked like a

"Let me see…"

moment later his one hand cupped the back of my knee as his other rested on my calf and he dipped his head

was wearing

had ridden up

it entirely as he

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

"It's not."

my leg around and I gasped when I saw a cut on the side of my

least six inches and it

"Oh.."

wound, only

"What,"

around his neck, only because I was afraid to fall,

"You can't walk.

clean this and band-aid

something else except how his

liked being in

I said, "No.

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