Blackmailed For Love

My heart beat like a drum as I stepped out of the elevator on my floor.I knew that I shouldn't have come back here, not when everything I hold precious was at stake if ever he found out.

But despite his warnings and threats to make my life hell and I knew he would, I came back for my mother and daughter.

My mum has always believed in me and I could not let her down.

Not when she needed me the most.I have to find a way to give her the care and treatment she deserves.

Also, I could not just get up and leave when I had just settled down.

Anna needs a proper home, not a life where her mother jumps around from one place to another.

I might've not been ready for her but I loved her from the moment I found out I was pregnant and I would do anything to give her the life she deserves.And I knew what I had to do.

I knew how it would work.I won't fight him.

The devil wants his due and I am ready to give in.

But like in every transaction with the Devil I will ask for a prize.

A way to solve my problems.

My mother's cancer treatment and a way for my daughter to go to school and have everything she needs.

I was no princess like my mum used to call me but I wanted to give my daughter the life of princess and there was only one way to do it.

Make a deal with the devil that hates me.

I couldn't even say that it was unfound— his hatred for me, because it wasn't.He had every reason to hate me.

Every step that I took down the small corridor to the file room was filled with anxious energy as I waited for him to jump out of the shadows and corner me, which was stupid because Kristian Aaron wouldn't do something like that.

He wasn't a boy wanting attention, he never was.

When I met him he was a mysterious and very attractive man of twenty five that intrigued me from the very first glimpse, but now he was dangerous and ready to tear me into pieces like the wild being that I used to fear in the forest of Black Mountains.

Now he wasn't just attractive, he had a lethal beauty that called to me at a base level and I wondered if I would be able to resist him.

Because, if I'm being honest with myself, even when I gave him reason to hate me, I never hated him.

I entered the file room and made my way toward my desk.

As I started working, marking the unknown files and pasting the sticky notes to label the others, I almost forgot to be on guard.

I should not have.I almost screamed when someone touched my shoulder while I was bent over to pick up the box that I had placed under the desk.

When I jerked upright, I let out a rough exhale as I saw Kaden standing there.

"Hi, there."

"Hey…"

"I knocked but you were busy."

I looked back down at the box of scrunched up papers that I hadn't wanted to look through.

"Yeah, what's up?" I asked and cringed at how I sounded.

He smiled.

"I was wondering about our dinner date."

Oh.

I had totally forgotten about it.He asked, "Are you ever going to say yes to it?"

I licked my lips as I thought about my response.

"Kaden, I—"

the fuck is going

as his cold voice penetrated the warm air inside the small room making

his footsteps and then he said, "Why are you here,

do you think?" Kaden

silence that followed had me cringing

to leave

said.But I came here for

Oh god.

No.

out the

afternoon.What can

me, making me shrink back with the coldness

form, taking in my faded brown skirt and cream

the way his eyes paused for a nanosecond

my office and wait for me

his sharp, "Now"

heard him saying to Kaden, "You know there's no

didn't hear what Kaden replied to him as I made my way toward his

moment I entered, I was

I had detected

my insides with warmth and brought the memories from

my way toward the sofa

to do, I looked

was quite ordinary for him when I knew how much money he came

with nothing that speaks of his character made no sense until I remembered that he had another

door opened behind

was striding inside, bringing his coldness with him

man with all the power in the

I guess he

just stared at each other, the memories of our past silent and waiting to be

acknowledge was how

He questioned.

to wait here for me.And if you were so inclined to sit then you should be on

my tongue as his words

to say, little girl." His eyes

that you weren't that quiet when you spoke in front

shut, remembering the

how I broke something so vulnerable and

I lost the hold on my tears, I said, "Let's make a preposition,

surprised he

jaw, just the way Anna does when she was engrossed in a fairy-tale

made

then, let's hear what

that

disgusted sound in his

would strangle

am inclining toward

clenched my fingers into fists, took a

His eyes flashed.

want your

"I wasn't seeking permission."

His eyes narrowed infinitesimally.

the fucking point,

sucked in a breath

want.Anything.The only thing I want in return is for you to

He arched a brow.

"And, money."

tightened.He looked furious and

understood the first but

will be my whore for money, is

demanded, "Say the words,

a few times as I recalled my promise to

swallowed and whispered, "Yes.I