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

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

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

bit and then held out

knew what was in her small fist even before she opened

"Wear this.

our lucky

said, her

shook my head and closed her fingers back around the black stone that had half of its piece back somewhere in Black

"It's yours.

keep it

her lips and picked up my hand then slammed the

it to me and I'm loaning it

can give it back

battle when

and said,

I want you to go

the bed but didn't lie down, instead she bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me with

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 left it out in the apartment somewhere hidden but apparently the same thought

she held out her palm in a silent demand

my hair aside, then her small fingers got busy

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

to everyone who would

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

"See, this makes you look the

announced as

a tight hug, just then I heard my phone

focused on my daughter as I said with a pout,

palms

as she

will always be

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

her nose and in return she kissed

"I love you."

you

pulled back and ruffled her

I

laid down and I tugged

I kissed

"Good night, baby"

"When will you

"Soon."

"Good

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

"Yes, baby?"

be my new

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

will be

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

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

and answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the

that I was purposely keeping her away from her father which was in fact a truth is considered

that he

never knew I was pregnant when he threatened me and told me

even now that he

him the truth and if I had gotten the chance to

by me had festered for so

knew it even before I opened the message icon that it would be

I wasn't prepared for his

be there in the next

Don't wear any panties."

so I

my way toward my mother's bedroom to check

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

I

I could, until I understand what kind of man this Kristian was, would he intentionally force a daughter from her mother

no one out in the corridor but it wasn't the case as I stepped out of the

started to take notice of me