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.

angel, he

you want

of my own, I nodded, "I would prefer it if he

and then I watched as she leapt off the bed and pulled the basket from under the

it for a bit and then held out a thick

was in her small fist even before

"Wear this.

lucky charm,

her grey

fingers back around the black stone that had

"It's yours.

should keep it

her lips and picked up my hand then slammed the shining black rock in my palm and closed my fingers around

and I'm loaning

give it back to me

battle when

nodded and said,

I want you to

lie down, instead she bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me

my mind too, instead of putting it on I'd have

a silent demand as

rock in her palm and she swiped my

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

who would just look in my

part of it, the other half and the bigger part was left behind in the cottage on the Aaron estate when I accidentally dropped

"See, this makes you look

as she

hug, just then I heard my phone pinging with

on my daughter as I said with

clapped my cheeks between her palms and brought

as she said,

be the best,

tears away and said, "So

return she kissed the corner of my

"I love you."

you

and

made a face and I said, "Now, go

laid down and I

I kissed

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will you

"Soon."

"Good night,

way toward the bedroom

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be my

scratch and I swallowed the knot in my throat

will be back

she turned away and pulled the blanket up

her father, I had to ignore her questions or make up a lie that

of the time, my mother would interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the light that

that I was purposely keeping her away from her father which was

never knew that

I was pregnant when he threatened me and

now

what would've happened if the last time I had gone to meet him to tell him the truth and if I had gotten the chance to tell him the truth, if we hadn't been

me, now I didn't even know how he would react when the wounds inflicted by me had

knew it even before

I wasn't prepared

will be there in the next ten

Don't wear any panties."

feel half naked so I wasn't going to

mother's bedroom to check up on her before I turned toward the

he will be here soon so I decided to wait for him downstairs because I didn't want him

I can

try as 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

it wasn't the case as I stepped out

to take notice of me when I came into the entrance hall near