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

you want him to

of my own, I nodded, "I would

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

held out a thick black

I knew what was in

"Wear this.

lucky charm,

said, her grey eyes

the black stone that had half of its piece back somewhere

"It's yours.

keep

picked up my hand then slammed the shining black rock in my palm and

and I'm loaning it

give it back

a losing battle when

nodded and

to

her bottom lip and regarded me with a suspicious look and said, "Give it to me, I'll help

was a freaking smartarse? The thought had crossed my mind too, instead of

silent demand as she

rock in her palm and she swiped my hair

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

everyone who would just

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

"See, this makes

announced as she

just then I heard my phone pinging

daughter as I said with a pout, "I

my cheeks between her palms and brought

as

always be the

tears away and said, "So

her nose and in return she

"I love you."

you

back and ruffled her

I said, "Now, go back

down and I tugged the

down, I kissed

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will

"Soon."

"Good

way toward the bedroom

"Yes, baby?"

be my new

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

be back

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

ignore her questions

would interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the light that would leave room for more

keeping her away from her father which was in fact

that he had

when he threatened me and

now that he has

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

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

phone, I knew it even before I opened the message

wasn't prepared

in

Don't wear any panties."

so I wasn't going to

made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check up on her before I turned toward

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

I can

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 behind my

it wasn't the case as

take notice of me when I came into