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 he

he relax or even if he does it?

Now, it's your turn."

secret could match his but I

a beauty mark on the left

those dark grey eyes on me like

a small voice, I confessed, "I didn't know

I didn't

He started walking.

coming for me

angry for telling me a big secret of his

home when I heard his footsteps stop behind

that he was already several steps away I almost

quite some time and

footsteps slowed and he

he was waiting for me to continue, so

said, "I am

him much and I don't

turned to

and he said, "You don't have to do anything to

can ignore

I giggled.

shy, I tucked a loose strand behind

"Why?"

and replied,

"Why do you have a crush on this guy? Is he in your class?

licked my lips and thought about my answer and

"Yes.

He's in my class.

not my

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

He seemed untouchable.

I looked

he was and how far he

want to

to know

watched as his jaw clenched and then he turned to me and

can you say

he could answer a shriek left my mouth

as he

"Are you okay?"

brows knotted

winced as I sat back on my arse on the

them and there was a tiny bit of blood

looked like a small scratch it pained me like

"Let me see…"

away and a moment later his one hand cupped the back of my knee as his other rested on my

wearing

had ridden up

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

my dry throat and said, "I think I'm alright,

"It's not."

turned my leg around and I gasped when I saw a cut

and it was the source of

"Oh.."

wound, only to snap them open when I

"What,"

held me up in his arms and I quickly slipped my arms around his neck,

"You can't walk.

help you clean this and band-aid

I finally thought of something else except how his

I liked being in his

I said, "No.

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