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 to

my own, I nodded, "I would

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

bit and then held out

was in her small

"Wear this.

lucky charm,

said, her grey

black stone that

"It's yours.

should keep

up my hand then slammed the shining black rock in

me and

it back

losing battle

nodded and

I want you to go back to

didn't lie down, instead she bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me with a suspicious look and said, "Give it

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

out her palm in a silent demand as she moved on her

and she swiped my hair aside, then her small fingers got busy

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

everyone who would just look in

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 the Aaron estate when I accidentally dropped it while

this makes you look

as she came

her in a tight hug, just then I heard my phone pinging with

on my daughter as I said

her palms and brought my

fierce as she

be the

the tears away and said,

nose and in return she kissed the corner

"I love you."

you too,

back and ruffled

face and I said, "Now,

down and I tugged the blanket over

I kissed

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will you

"Soon."

"Good

and made my way toward the bedroom door when

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be my new

My broken heart suffered another scratch and I swallowed the knot in my throat as I said,

will be back

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

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

interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting her father

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

that he had

I was pregnant when he threatened me and told me to

now that he

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

when the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever his eyes landed on me they were resentful, cold and filled with

it even before I opened the

wasn't prepared for

will be there in the next ten

Don't wear any panties."

made me feel half naked so I

and made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check up on her before I turned toward

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

if I can

I understand what kind of man this Kristian was, would he intentionally force a daughter from her mother

one out in the corridor but it wasn't the case as I stepped out of the elevator

as people started to take notice of me when I came