Blackmailed For Love

I sat down on the sofa and opened the first box of the two in the soft overhead light coming from above the tv console.

I peeled the soft tissue that glimmered in the dim light and looked at the dark purple silk nestled in there.

With hesitant fingers I picked up the silken fabric, it unfurled in my hands as I let it drop down in front of me.

It was a sleeveless and a backless dress with a slit up to just below the waistline.

I would be half naked in this dress but still the thought of wearing it lit up a spark of anticipation deep inside my lower belly.

The other box had the same colored heels with red bottoms.

It took me twenty minutes to get ready as I didn't do much except to put Band-Aids on my nipples as the dress won't allow me to wear a bra and my nîpples poked through the fabric as if begging for attention and applied a natural shade of pink lip gloss.

I looked like a virgin trying to be a seductress.

I shook my head at my own thoughts as I stepped out of the bathroom, 1 faltered when my eyes met dark greys.

My daughter was sitting up in the bed and she was looking at me with wide eyes and a curious tilt of her head.

"Anna…"

"Mama, you look beautiful."

My heart squeezed with love at her words.

I walked to her, concentrating on not falling face first because of the heels I was wearing, it was safe to say I wasn't used to such type of footwear.

"What are you doing waking up? I thought you were asleep."

I said as I sat down on the bed beside her.

"I was."

She said with a silent Duh at the end.

I bit down on my bottom lip as my lips twitched, but she slipped closer to me and said, "I had a bad dream."

I cupped her cheek and pulled her on my lap, uncaring of the expensive silk.

Cradling her against my chest, I smoothed her dark hair back and asked, "Talk to me.

What did you dream about?"

"Someone was taking me away from you."

She replied, her voice small and a slight shaking entered in her voice.

My arms tightened around her.

And I said, "No one is going to take me away from you."

2 "Promise?"

I pressed a kiss on her head.

"Promise, my little angel."

She looked up at me and asked, "Where are you going?"

I didn't know the answer to that myself, but I replied, "Dinner."

Her brows lowered and her grey eyes turned inquisitive.

"But we had pizza."

I tapped her nose.

"Yes.

But I am meeting someone."

"A boy or a girl?"

For some reason I didn't lie to my daughter.

"A boy."

She made a thoughtful face and asked, "Is he your boyfriend?"

I shook my head.

he is

you want him

my own, I nodded, "I would prefer

off the bed and pulled the basket from

and then held out a thick

painful pang as I knew what was in her small fist even before she opened her

"Wear this.

our lucky charm,

her grey eyes

my head and closed her fingers back around the black stone that had

"It's yours.

keep

my hand then slammed the shining black rock in my palm and

it to me and I'm loaning it to

it back

a losing battle when I

and said,

you to go

the bed but didn't lie down, instead she bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me with a

years old daughter was a freaking smartarse? The thought had crossed my mind too, instead of putting it on I'd have left it out in the apartment

out her palm in a silent demand as

palm and she swiped my

neck before she accidentally choked me as the thread wasn't too long and

everyone who would just

and veins running inside it, crystal clear and shining but now I only had smallest broken part of it, the other half and the bigger part was left behind in the cottage on the Aaron estate when I accidentally dropped it while trying to pack all the things I could get my hands on which didn't matter later when I had to run from one place to another

makes you

daughter announced as

her in a tight hug, just then

ignored my phone and focused on my daughter as I said with a pout, "I thought I was already the

between her palms and brought my face

as she said,

be

tears away and said, "So are you, my little

in return she kissed the

"I love you."

you

pulled back and ruffled

a face and I said, "Now,

and I tugged the

I kissed

"Good night, baby"

"When will

"Soon."

replied "Good night,

and made my way toward the

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be my new

the knot in my throat as I

will be back

closed as she turned away and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing the door, I let out a rough exhale

had asked me about her father, I had to ignore

interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting her father

her away from her father which was in fact a truth

never knew that he had impregnated

he threatened me

know even now that he has a

the last time I had gone to meet him to tell him the truth and if I had gotten the chance to

the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever his eyes landed on me they were resentful, cold and filled with promise

unlocked my phone, I knew it even before I opened the message

wasn't prepared

in the next ten

Don't wear any panties."

naked so I wasn't going to

bedroom to check up on her before I turned toward

so I decided to wait for him downstairs because I didn't

if I can

much as I could, until I understand what kind of man this Kristian was, would he intentionally force a daughter from her mother in the name of his revenge? I locked the door behind me and slipped the key behind my phone

in the corridor but it wasn't the case

notice of me when I