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

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

Now, it's your turn."

match his but I

mark on

those dark grey eyes on

a small voice, I confessed, "I didn't know

told you I didn't

He started walking.

thought he was coming for me but then

slumped as I thought that he was angry for telling me

home when I heard his footsteps stop

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

for quite some time and then I blurted

slowed and

he was waiting for me to continue, so I

said, "I am not sure

and I don't know how to get

turned to

caress and he said, "You don't have

can

I giggled.

I tucked a loose strand behind my

"Why?"

his head and replied, "I

have a crush on this guy? Is he

licked my lips and thought about my answer and decided to

"Yes.

He's in my class.

not my

my feet, at the uneven forest

He seemed untouchable.

want to…? I looked at

handsome he was and how

want to

to know

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

you

mouth as I

echoed around us as he crouched down and helped me

"Are you okay?"

his brows knotted

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

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

as it looked like a small scratch it pained me like

"Let me see…"

back of my knee as his other rested on

was wearing

ridden up

slowly tugged them down, but couldn't do it entirely as he was still grazing my

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

"It's not."

my leg around and I gasped when I saw a cut

six inches and it was the source of

"Oh.."

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

"What,"

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.

help you clean this and band-aid

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

liked being in

I said, "No.

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