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 is

you want

thoughtful pause of my own, I nodded, "I would prefer

the bed and pulled the basket from under

held out a thick black macrame cord

what was in her small fist even before

"Wear this.

lucky

said, her grey eyes

my head and closed her fingers back around the black stone

"It's yours.

should 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

it to me and I'm loaning it to

back to me when you

battle when I

and

to

her bottom lip and

of putting it on

out her palm in a silent demand as she

swiped my hair aside, then her

accidentally choked me as the

who would just look in

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

"See, this makes you look the

announced as

engulfed her in a tight hug, just then I heard

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

her palms and

as she said, "You

be the

away and said, "So are

and in return she

"I love you."

you too,

back and ruffled

I

down and I tugged

I kissed

"Good night, baby"

"When will

"Soon."

"Good night,

made my way toward

"Yes, baby?"

boy be my new

swallowed the

be

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

that my daughter had asked me about her father, I had to ignore her questions or make up a lie that I didn't

and answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the

I was purposely keeping her away from her father which was in fact a

never knew that he

I was pregnant when he threatened

know even now that he has

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

would react when the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever

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

wasn't prepared for his demanding

there in the

Don't wear any panties."

naked so

made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check

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

I can

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

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

notice of me when I came into the entrance hall near the