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.

wanted to know how

does it? "That was one secret

Now, it's your turn."

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

on

dark grey eyes on me like

confessed, "I didn't know what to

I didn't have

He started walking.

coming for me but then

telling me a big secret of his and didn't

back home when I heard his footsteps stop behind me

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

into steps by his side, we walked for quite some time and then I blurted

footsteps slowed and

got that he was waiting for

said, "I am

I don't know how to

turned to

eyes touched my face like a caress and he said, "You don't have to

can

I giggled.

feeling shy, I tucked a loose

"Why?"

and replied, "I

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

licked my lips and thought about my answer and decided

"Yes.

He's in my class.

he's not

down at my feet, at the uneven forest

He seemed untouchable.

I looked

he was and how

want to touch

to know

and then he turned to me and said, "If

you say

left my mouth

as he crouched

"Are you okay?"

asked, his brows knotted in

my arse on the uneven ground and

them and there was a tiny bit of blood on my left

it 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 calf and he dipped his head

was wearing

it had ridden

it entirely as he was still grazing

and said, "I think I'm

"It's not."

leg around and I gasped when I saw a cut on

at least six inches and it

"Oh.."

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

"What,"

his arms and I quickly slipped my arms around his neck, only

"You can't walk.

help you clean this

finally thought of something else except how his scent bombarded my senses

I liked being in

I said, "No.

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