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

want him to

I nodded,

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

for a bit and then held out a thick black

I knew what was in her small fist even before

"Wear this.

our lucky charm,

said, her grey

her fingers back around the black

"It's yours.

keep it to

the shining black rock in my palm

and I'm loaning it

give it back to me

a losing battle when

nodded and said,

want you to go back to

didn't lie down, instead she bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me with a suspicious look and said,

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

a silent demand as she moved

in her palm and she swiped my hair

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

to everyone who would just look in my

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

this makes you look the

announced as

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

my daughter as I said with a pout, "I

clapped my cheeks between her palms and brought my face closer to

as

will always be

the tears away and said, "So are

return she kissed

"I love you."

you too,

and ruffled

face and I

laid down and I tugged

I kissed her

"Good night, baby"

"When will you

"Soon."

"Good night,

bedside drawer and made my way

"Yes, baby?"

be

another scratch and I swallowed the knot in

be

the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing the door,

ignore her questions or make up

her vaguely but always painting her father in

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

knew that he had impregnated

he threatened me

now that he

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

inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever his eyes landed on me they were resentful,

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

prepared for his

there in the next ten

Don't wear any panties."

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

bedroom to check up on her before I turned toward

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

if I can

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

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

me when I came into the entrance