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 him

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

bed and pulled the basket from

bit and then held

what was in her small

"Wear this.

our lucky charm,

her grey eyes

the black stone that had half of

"It's yours.

should keep it to

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

it to me and

it back to me when you

a losing battle when

and

to go

didn't lie down, instead she bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me with a suspicious look and said, "Give it to me, I'll help you put

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

her palm in a silent demand as

the threaded rock in her palm and she swiped my hair aside, then her small fingers got busy as

accidentally choked me as the thread wasn't too long and the broken rock came to settle on the hollow of my

everyone who would just look in

heart, not the one that we drew as children but with jagged edges 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 because of the stalker that didn't let me settle

this makes you look the

as she came

engulfed her in a tight hug, just then I heard my phone

my phone and focused on my daughter as I said with a pout, "I thought I

her palms and

fierce as she said, "You

always be the

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

kissed her nose and in return she kissed

"I love you."

love you

and ruffled her

made a face and I

down and I tugged the blanket

I kissed

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will

"Soon."

replied "Good night,

the bedside drawer and made my way toward the bedroom door when her

"Yes, baby?"

boy be my

My broken heart suffered another scratch and I swallowed the knot in my throat as I said, "Go to sleep,

will be back

grey eyes closed as she turned away and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing the door,

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

her vaguely but always painting her

think my daughter thought that I was purposely keeping her away from her father which was in fact a truth

knew that he

knew I was pregnant when he threatened me and told me

even now that he has a

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

now what ifs weren't going to help me, now I didn't even know how he would react when the wounds inflicted by me

my phone, I knew it even before I opened the message icon that it

I wasn't prepared for his demanding

will be there in

Don't wear any panties."

already made me feel half naked so I wasn't going to obey

and made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check up on her before I turned toward

I decided to wait for him downstairs

if I

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

out in the corridor but it wasn't the case as

to take notice of me