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

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

Now, it's your turn."

could match

a beauty mark on

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

small voice, I confessed, "I didn't

you I didn't have

He started walking.

he was coming for me but then he

he was angry for telling me a big secret of his

walk and go back home when I heard his footsteps stop behind me and he said, "Come

and I turned around, seeing that he was already several steps away I almost ran

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

footsteps slowed and

he was waiting

"I am not sure

talked to him much and I don't

turned

my face like a caress and he said, "You don't have to do anything to get

one can

I giggled.

I tucked a loose strand behind my

"Why?"

shook his head and replied, "I

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

and thought about my answer and decided

"Yes.

He's in my class.

he's not my

down at my feet, at the uneven

He seemed untouchable.

I want to…? I looked at his side

he was and

want to

to know

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

can you

before he could answer a shriek left my mouth

as he crouched

"Are you okay?"

asked, his brows

winced as I sat back on my arse

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

it looked like a small scratch it

"Let me see…"

cupped the back of my knee as his other rested on

wearing

ridden up

couldn't do it entirely as he was still grazing

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

"It's not."

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

least six inches and it

"Oh.."

wound, only to

"What,"

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

"You can't walk.

help you clean

his scent bombarded my senses and

how much I liked

I said, "No.

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