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

you want him to

own, I nodded, "I would prefer it

watched as she leapt off the bed and pulled the basket from under the bed which was filled with the few toys

it for a bit and then held out a

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

"Wear this.

our lucky

her

closed her fingers back around the black stone

"It's yours.

should keep it to

then slammed the shining black

it to me and I'm loaning it

it back to me when you

losing battle when I see

and said,

to go

bed but 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

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

silent demand as she moved on her knees

my

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

everyone who would

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

this makes you

daughter announced as she came

just then I heard

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

her palms and brought my face

grey eyes fierce as she said, "You

be

tears away and said, "So are

kissed her nose and in return she kissed the corner

"I love you."

you

and ruffled

and I said, "Now,

laid down and I tugged

down, I kissed her

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When

"Soon."

"Good night,

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

"Yes, baby?"

boy be

I swallowed the knot

will be

nod and her grey eyes closed as she turned away and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing the door, I let out a

had to ignore her questions or make up a

always painting her father

keeping her away from her father which was in fact a truth

knew that

when he threatened me and

know even now

had gone to meet him to tell him the truth and if I

know how he would react when the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever his eyes

knew it

I wasn't prepared for his demanding

in the

Don't wear any panties."

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

mother's bedroom to

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

if I can help

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

wasn't the

inwardly as people started to take notice of me when I