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 he sleeps

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

Now, it's your turn."

think my secret could match his but I told

have a beauty mark on the left side of my

eyes darken and he narrowed those dark grey eyes on me

small voice, I confessed, "I didn't know what to

I didn't

He started walking.

thought he was coming for me but then he walked

I thought that he was angry for telling me a

walk and go back home when I heard his footsteps stop

lips and I turned around, seeing that he was already several

time and then I blurted out, "I think I have a

slowed and

was waiting for me to continue, so I

"I am not

to him much and I don't know how

finally turned

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

can ignore

I giggled.

shy, I tucked a loose strand behind my

"Why?"

and replied, "I will keep

do you have a crush on this guy?

and thought about my

"Yes.

He's in my class.

not

at the uneven

He seemed untouchable.

I looked at his

was and how far he

to

know him

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

can you say

before he could answer a shriek left my mouth as I stumbled over

us as he

"Are you okay?"

asked, his brows knotted

as I sat back on my arse on the uneven ground and looked at

tiny bit of blood on my left knee with dirt

it looked like a small scratch

"Let me see…"

brushed my hands 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 down to

was wearing

had ridden up to my

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

through my dry throat and said, "I think I'm alright, it's

"It's not."

and I gasped when I saw a

and it was the

"Oh.."

only to

"What,"

arms around his neck, only because I was afraid to fall,

"You can't walk.

help you clean

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

much I liked being in his

I said, "No.

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