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

my own, I nodded,

pulled the basket from under the bed which was filled with the few toys she had gathered

then held out

pang as I knew what was in her small fist even

"Wear this.

our lucky

her grey eyes

back around the black stone that had half of its piece back somewhere in

"It's yours.

keep it

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

gave it to me and I'm loaning

can give it back to me when you

a losing battle

and

want you to

down on her bottom lip and regarded me with a suspicious look

of putting it on I'd have left it out in the apartment somewhere hidden but apparently the same thought crossed

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

put the threaded rock in her palm and she swiped my hair aside, then her

me as the thread wasn't too long and the broken rock came to settle on the

who would

heart, not the one that we drew as children but with jagged 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 behind in the cottage on the Aaron estate when I accidentally dropped it while trying to pack all the things I could get my hands on which didn't matter later

makes you look the

daughter announced as she

in a tight hug, just then I heard

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

between her palms and brought

grey eyes fierce as she said,

be the

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

her nose and in return

"I love you."

love you

and ruffled her

a face and I said,

and I tugged the blanket

down, I kissed

"Good night, baby"

"When will

"Soon."

replied "Good

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

"Yes, baby?"

be

My broken heart suffered another scratch and I swallowed the knot

will be

blanket up to her shoulders, Closing

I had to ignore her questions or make up a lie that I didn't want to tell

would interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting her

think my daughter thought that I was purposely keeping her away from her father which was in fact a truth is

that he had impregnated

pregnant when he threatened me and told

know even now that he

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

now I didn't even know how he would react when the wounds inflicted by me had

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

prepared for

will be there in the next

Don't wear any panties."

feel half naked so I wasn't going to obey his insane

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

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

if I

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

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

to take notice of me when I