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 sleeps

if he does it? "That was one secret I told you, little

Now, it's your turn."

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

beauty mark on the

his eyes darken and he narrowed those dark grey

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

I

He started walking.

me but then he walked right

me a big secret of his and

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

my lips and I turned around, seeing that he

his side, we walked for quite some time and

slowed and he remained

got that he was waiting for me to continue, so I

"I am

him much and I don't know how to get his

finally turned

a caress and he said, "You don't have to do anything to get anyone's attention,

can

I giggled.

shy, I tucked a loose

"Why?"

head and replied,

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

and thought about my answer and decided

"Yes.

He's in my class.

not

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

He seemed untouchable.

want to…? I looked

was and how far he

to

know

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

you

left my mouth as I stumbled over a rock and fell

curse echoed around us as he crouched down and helped me

"Are you okay?"

his brows

sat back on my arse on the

of blood on my left knee with dirt and tiny twigs on

as it looked like a small scratch it pained

"Let me see…"

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

was wearing a

had ridden up to

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

"I think I'm alright, it's only

"It's not."

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

at least six inches and it was the source of my

"Oh.."

the bloody wound, only to

"What,"

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

"You can't walk.

clean this and band-aid

and I finally thought of something else except how his scent

how much I liked being

I said, "No.

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