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

a thoughtful pause of my own, I nodded,

scampered off my lap and then I watched as she leapt off the bed and pulled the basket from under the bed which

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

heart gave a painful pang as I knew what was in her

"Wear this.

our lucky

said, her grey

back around the black stone that had

"It's yours.

should keep it

pursed her lips and picked up my hand then slammed the shining

gave it to me and I'm loaning it to

can give it back to me when you

losing battle when I see

nodded and said,

you to

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

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

a silent demand as she moved on her knees so she was

my hair aside, then her small fingers got busy as she tied

and my neck before she accidentally choked me as the thread wasn't too long and the

to everyone who would just look in my

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 to another because of the stalker that didn't let

makes

daughter announced as she came

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

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

cheeks between her palms and brought my face closer

fierce as

be the

tears away and said,

kissed her nose and in return she

"I love you."

you too,

and

and I

and I tugged the blanket

down, I kissed her

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will you

"Soon."

"Good

made my way toward the bedroom door when her soft voice stopped

"Yes, baby?"

be my

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

be back

and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders, Closing

her father, I had to ignore her

time, my mother would interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the light that would

that I was purposely keeping her away from her father which was in

knew that he had

knew I was pregnant when he

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

now I didn't even know how he would react when the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so long that whenever his eyes landed on me they were resentful, cold and

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

wasn't prepared for his

be there in

Don't wear any panties."

so I wasn't going to obey

his text and made my way toward my mother's bedroom to check up

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

I

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

it wasn't the case as I stepped out of the elevator

to take notice of me when I came