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

want him to

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

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

for a bit and then held out a thick black

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

"Wear this.

our lucky charm,

her grey eyes

head and closed her fingers back around the black stone that

"It's yours.

keep it to

lips and picked up my hand then slammed the shining black rock in my palm and closed my fingers

gave it to me and I'm

back to me

losing battle

and

you to go back

the bed but didn't lie down, instead she bit down on her bottom lip and

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 apparently the same thought crossed my genius

held out her palm in a silent demand as she moved on her knees so she

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

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

to everyone who would just look in

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

makes you look the

announced as she came

hug, just then I heard my

my daughter as I said

clapped my cheeks between her palms and brought

eyes fierce as she said,

be the

and said, "So are you, my little

her nose and in return she kissed the corner of my

"I love you."

you

back and ruffled

and I said,

down and I tugged the

I kissed her

"Good night, baby"

"When

"Soon."

"Good

my way toward the

"Yes, baby?"

be my new

the knot in my

be

eyes closed as she turned away and pulled the blanket up

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

mother would interrupt and answer her vaguely but always painting her father in the light

I think my daughter thought that I was purposely keeping her away

that he

pregnant when he threatened me and told

now that he has

if the last time I had 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

ifs weren't going to help me, now I didn't even know how he would react when the wounds inflicted by me had festered for so

I pulled myself straight and unlocked my phone, I knew it even before I opened the message icon that

I wasn't prepared for his

in the next

Don't wear any panties."

made me feel half naked so I wasn't going to

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

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

I

I would try as much 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?

corridor but it wasn't the case as I

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