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 is

you want him

pause of my own, I nodded,

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

and then held out a

I knew what was in

"Wear this.

lucky

her

black stone that had half of its piece back somewhere in Black

"It's yours.

keep it to

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

and I'm

can give it back to me

battle

and

you to

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

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

she held out her palm in a silent demand as she

the threaded rock in her palm and she swiped my hair

fingers between the thread and 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 my

would just look

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 when I had to run from one place

makes you look

daughter announced as she

then I heard my phone pinging with an

daughter as I said with a pout,

palms and brought my face closer

grey eyes fierce as she said,

will always be

and said, "So

her nose and in return she kissed the

"I love you."

love you

and

made a face and I said, "Now, go

I tugged

I

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will you

"Soon."

"Good

bedside drawer and made my way toward the bedroom door when

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be my

suffered another scratch and I swallowed the knot in

be

up to her shoulders, Closing the door, I let out

that my daughter had asked me about her father, I had to ignore her questions or make up a lie that I

but always painting her father in

my daughter thought that I was purposely keeping her away from her father

never knew that he

he threatened me and told

didn't know even now that he

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

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

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

I wasn't prepared for his demanding

in the next

Don't wear any panties."

dress already made me feel half naked so I

ignored his text and made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check up on her before

decided to wait for him downstairs because I didn't want him

I

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 name of his revenge? I locked the door behind

the case

people started to take notice of me