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 does it? "That

Now, it's your turn."

think my secret could match his but I told

on the left

grey eyes on me

confessed, "I didn't know what to tell

I didn't have

He started walking.

thought he was coming for me but then he walked right

shoulders slumped as I thought that he was angry for telling me a big secret of his and didn't get anything like

about to walk and go back home when I

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

for quite some time and

slowed and he remained

was waiting for me to continue,

am not

haven't talked to him much and I don't know how

finally turned

touched my face like a caress and he said, "You don't have to do anything to get anyone's attention, little

one can ignore

I giggled.

feeling shy, I tucked a loose strand behind my

"Why?"

shook his head and replied, "I

have a crush on

licked my lips and thought about

"Yes.

He's in my class.

not

looked down at my feet, at the uneven forest

He seemed untouchable.

to…? I looked at

and how far

want to touch

to know him

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

you

he could answer a shriek left my mouth as I stumbled over a rock and fell

low curse echoed around us as he crouched down and

"Are you okay?"

his brows knotted in

back on my arse on the uneven

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

it looked like a small scratch

"Let me see…"

my knee as his other rested

wearing a

ridden

do it entirely as

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

"It's not."

to disagree when he turned my leg around and I gasped when I

least six inches and it was the source of

"Oh.."

the bloody wound, only to snap them open when I was suddenly

"What,"

his arms and I quickly slipped my arms around his neck, only because I was afraid to fall, what if he

"You can't walk.

clean

something else except how his scent bombarded my senses and how his heat was absorbing into

liked being in

I said, "No.

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