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

you want him

own, I nodded, "I would

she leapt off the bed and pulled the basket from under the bed which

rummaged in it for a bit and then held out a

as I knew what was in her

"Wear this.

lucky

said, her grey

my head and closed her fingers back around the black stone that had

"It's yours.

keep it to

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

to me and I'm

it back to me when

losing battle when I

and

to go back to

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

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

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

my hair aside, then her small fingers

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

everyone who would just look in my

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

this makes you look the

daughter announced as she

just then I heard my phone pinging with an incoming

my daughter as I said with a pout,

between her palms and brought my face

as she said,

be the best,

away and said, "So are you, my

and in return

"I love you."

love you

back and ruffled

made a face and I said, "Now,

and I

down, I

"Good night, baby"

"When will

"Soon."

"Good

bedside drawer and made my way toward the bedroom

"Yes, baby?"

boy be my

I swallowed the

will be back

she turned away and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing the door, I let out a rough exhale and

that my daughter had asked me about her father, I had to ignore

would interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting

that I was purposely keeping her away from her

knew that

when he threatened me and told me

know even now that

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

I didn't even know how he would react when the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever his eyes landed

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

wasn't prepared for his demanding

will be there in

Don't wear any panties."

half naked so I wasn't going to obey

my mother's bedroom to check up on her

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

if I

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

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

inwardly as people started to take notice of me when I came into the entrance hall