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

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

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

a bit and then held out a thick black macrame cord in

was in her small

"Wear this.

lucky charm,

said, her grey eyes

black stone that had

"It's yours.

should keep

my hand then slammed the shining

to me and

give it back to me when you

a losing battle when I see

and

you to

she bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me with

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

in a silent demand as she moved

my

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

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

"See, this makes you look

as she came

engulfed her in a tight hug, just then I heard

phone and focused on my daughter as I said with a pout, "I

her palms and brought

eyes fierce as she

be the

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

her nose and in return she kissed the corner of my

"I love you."

love you

pulled back and

made a face and I said, "Now, go back

laid down and I tugged

down, I kissed

"Good night, baby"

"When

"Soon."

"Good

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

"Yes, baby?"

boy be my new

broken heart suffered another scratch and I swallowed the knot in my throat

be

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

father, I had to ignore her questions

but always painting her father

keeping her away from her father which was in fact a

knew that he had impregnated

knew I was pregnant when he threatened me and told me to

know even now that he has a

to tell him the truth and if I had gotten the chance to tell him the truth, if

what ifs 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 so long that whenever his eyes landed on me they were resentful, cold and

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

prepared

will be there in the next

Don't wear any panties."

half naked so I wasn't

my mother's bedroom to check up on her before I

here soon so I decided to wait for him

if I can

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

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

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