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

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

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

in it for a bit and then held out a thick

was in her small fist even

"Wear this.

our lucky charm,

her grey

around the black stone that had half

"It's yours.

keep it to

slammed the

gave it to me and I'm loaning it to

it back to me when you

battle when

nodded and said,

I want you to go back

on her bottom lip and regarded me with a suspicious

tell you my five 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 the same thought crossed

she held out her palm in a silent demand as

threaded rock in her palm and she swiped my hair

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

who would just look in my

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

makes

daughter announced as she

engulfed her in a tight hug, just then

on my daughter as I said

my cheeks between her palms and brought my face

fierce as

will always be the

and said,

kissed her nose and in return she kissed

"I love you."

love you

pulled back and ruffled

made a face and I said,

laid down and I tugged the blanket

down, I

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will you

"Soon."

"Good night,

the bedside drawer and made my way toward the bedroom door when her

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be

I swallowed the

will be

gave me a solemn nod and her grey eyes closed as she turned away and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders,

had to ignore her questions or

answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the light

my daughter thought that I was purposely keeping her away from

knew that he had impregnated

he threatened me and told

even now that he has a

truth and if I had gotten the chance to tell him the truth, if we hadn't been interrupted and he hadn't

would react when the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever his eyes landed on me

pulled myself straight and unlocked my phone, I knew it even

prepared for his demanding

will be there in the next ten

Don't wear any panties."

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

mother's bedroom

soon so I decided to wait for

I can

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

the corridor but it wasn't the

me when I came into the entrance hall