Blackmailed For Love

Chapter 27: Not your property

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

want

of my own, I nodded, "I

she leapt off the bed and pulled the basket from under the bed

held out a thick black macrame cord in her

what was in her small fist even before

"Wear this.

our lucky

said, her

head and closed her fingers back around the black stone

"It's yours.

keep it

up my hand then slammed the shining black rock

it to me and I'm loaning it to

back

battle

nodded and

you to go

and regarded me with

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

she held out her palm in a silent demand as she moved on her knees so she was behind

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

between the thread and my neck before she accidentally choked me as the thread wasn't

who would just look in my

the bigger part was left behind in

"See, this makes

daughter announced as she

in a tight hug, just then I heard my phone pinging

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

between her palms

as she said,

always be the

away and said, "So are

her nose and in return she kissed the corner of my

"I love you."

you too,

pulled back and ruffled

I said,

laid down and I

I

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When

"Soon."

replied "Good

my phone from the bedside drawer and made my way toward the bedroom door when her soft voice stopped

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be my

scratch and I swallowed the knot in my throat as I said, "Go

be

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

time that my daughter had asked me about her father, I had to ignore her questions or make up a lie that I didn't

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

think my daughter thought that I was purposely keeping her away from her father which

never knew that

when he threatened

even now that he has

would've happened if the last time I had gone to meet him to tell him the truth and if I had

inflicted by me

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

I wasn't prepared for his demanding

will be there in the

Don't wear any panties."

so

ignored his text and made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check

I decided to wait for him

if I can

force a daughter from her

wasn't the case as I stepped out of

cringed inwardly as people started to take notice of me

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