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

want

I nodded, "I

leapt off the bed and pulled the basket from under the bed which was filled with the

it for a bit and then held out a thick black macrame cord

painful pang as I knew what was in her small fist

"Wear this.

lucky charm,

said, her

back around the black stone that had half of its piece

"It's yours.

keep it to

slammed the shining black rock in my

gave it to me and I'm loaning

back to me when

battle when I

nodded and said,

to

bit down on her bottom lip and regarded me with a suspicious look and

instead of putting it on I'd have left

she held out her palm in a silent demand as she

the threaded rock in her palm and she swiped my hair aside, then her small fingers got busy

the thread wasn't too long and the broken rock came to settle on the hollow

would just

part was left behind in the cottage on the Aaron estate when I accidentally dropped it

this makes

announced as

in a tight hug, just then I heard

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

my cheeks between her palms and brought

grey eyes fierce as she said, "You

be

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

her nose and in return she kissed the corner

"I love you."

you too,

pulled back and

a face and I said, "Now, go back

and I tugged the blanket over

I kissed

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When

"Soon."

replied "Good

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

"Yes, baby?"

be my

suffered another scratch and I swallowed the knot in my

be

and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing the door, I let out a rough exhale and closed my

I had to ignore her questions

but always painting her father in the light that

keeping her away from her father

knew that he had

never knew I was pregnant when he threatened me

now that he

happened if the last time I had gone to meet him to tell him the truth and if I had gotten the chance

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

I knew it even before I opened the message icon

I wasn't prepared for his

be there in the next ten

Don't wear any panties."

so I wasn't going to obey his

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

he will be here soon so I decided to

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 name of his revenge? I locked the

the corridor but it wasn't the case as I stepped out of the elevator on the ground

of me when I came into the entrance hall near the