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

does it?

Now, it's your turn."

secret could match his but I

a beauty mark on the

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

a small voice, I confessed, "I

I didn't have

He started walking.

thought he was coming for me but then he walked right

for telling me a big secret of his and didn't

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

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

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

slowed and he remained

I got that he was waiting for me to

said, "I am not

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

turned to

and he said, "You don't

can

I giggled.

tucked a loose strand behind

"Why?"

head and replied, "I will

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

and thought about my answer and decided to

"Yes.

He's in my class.

he's not my

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

He seemed untouchable.

I want to…? I looked at his

handsome he was and how far

to

to know him

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

you

my mouth as I stumbled over a rock and fell on

curse echoed around us as he crouched down

"Are you okay?"

asked, his brows knotted

on my arse on

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

like a small scratch it

"Let me see…"

his one hand cupped the back of my knee as his other rested on my calf

was wearing

ridden up to

tugged them down, but couldn't do it entirely

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

"It's not."

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

and it was the

"Oh.."

squeezed my eyes at the bloody wound, only to snap them open when I

"What,"

held me up in his arms and I quickly slipped my arms around his neck, only because I was afraid to fall, what if

"You can't walk.

clean this and band-aid

his scent bombarded my senses

much I liked

I said, "No.

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