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 is

want

nodded,

pulled the basket from under the bed which was

and then held out a thick black macrame cord

heart gave a painful pang as I knew what was in her small fist

"Wear this.

our lucky

said, her grey

her fingers back around the black stone that had half of its piece back somewhere in Black

"It's yours.

should keep

the shining black rock in my palm and closed

gave it to me and I'm loaning it

give it back to me when

battle when I see

nodded and

I want you to go back to

on her bottom lip and regarded me with

my mind too, instead of putting it on I'd have left it out in the apartment somewhere hidden but apparently the same thought

in a silent demand as

her palm and she swiped my hair aside, then her small fingers got busy as she tied

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

everyone who would

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

makes you look the

daughter announced as

then I heard my phone pinging

daughter as I said with a pout, "I thought I was

palms and brought my

as

always be

and said, "So are you,

kissed her nose and in return

"I love you."

you too,

and ruffled

face and I said, "Now,

and I

I kissed her

"Good night, baby"

"When will you

"Soon."

"Good

drawer and made my way toward

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be my

another scratch and I swallowed the knot in my throat as I

be

the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing the door, I let out a rough exhale and closed my

ignore her

her vaguely but always painting her father in the

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

knew that

I was pregnant when he threatened me and

now that he has

the truth and if I had gotten the chance to tell

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 had festered for so long that whenever

my phone, I knew it even before

I wasn't prepared for his demanding

in

Don't wear any panties."

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

text and made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check up on her

so I decided to wait for him downstairs because

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

out in the corridor but it wasn't the case as I stepped out of the elevator on the

as people started to take notice of me when I came into the entrance hall