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

want him to

I nodded, "I would prefer it

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

in it for a bit and then held out a

gave a painful pang as I knew what was in her

"Wear this.

our lucky

her grey eyes

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

"It's yours.

should keep it

the

it to me and I'm loaning

back

battle

and said,

to go back

and regarded me with a suspicious look and said, "Give it to me, I'll

I 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

now she held out her palm in a silent demand as

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

before she accidentally choked me as the thread wasn't too long and the broken rock came

who would just

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

makes you

daughter announced as

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

I said

palms and brought my

fierce as she

always be the

away and said, "So are you, my little

her nose and in return she

"I love you."

love you

pulled back and

a face and I said, "Now,

laid down and I tugged the

down, I

"Good night, baby"

asked, "When will

"Soon."

"Good night,

from the bedside drawer and made my way toward the

"Yes, baby?"

this boy be my new

swallowed the

will be

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

had to ignore her questions or make up a lie that

answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the light that would leave room

away from

never knew that he

knew I was pregnant when he threatened me and

even now that he

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

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

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

wasn't prepared

be there in

Don't wear any panties."

so I wasn't going to obey his insane

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

he mentioned that he will be here soon so I decided to wait for him downstairs because I

if I can help

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 me

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

started to take notice of me when I came into the entrance hall near