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—"

is going

voice penetrated the warm

heard his footsteps and then he said, "Why are

you think?"

silence that followed had me

to leave

have said.But I came here for

Oh god.

No.

blurted out the first thing that

can

grey eyes fell on me, making me shrink back with

in my

had gotten tight over the years and the way his eyes paused for a nanosecond

to my office and wait for me

but his

him saying to Kaden, "You

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

entered, I was assaulted with his

had

hint of cinnamon filled my

toward the sofa

do, I looked around

nothing standing out, it was quite ordinary for him when I knew how

character made no sense until

the door opened

striding inside, bringing his coldness with him that

in his chair, looking like the man with all the power in the world, he

I guess he

we just stared at each other, the memories of our past

thing he would acknowledge was how much he despised me, "Did I tell you

He questioned.

here for me.And if you were so inclined to sit then

bit down on my tongue as his words hurt like arrows to my

little

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

eyes shut, remembering the pain and devastation on

how I broke something so vulnerable and precious-

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

he was surprised he

put his elbow on the desk and cupped his jaw, just the way Anna does when she was engrossed

sight made

he said, "Go on then, let's hear what

that

made a disgusted sound in

doesn't even cut it, little girl.If I could, I would strangle you or maybe

inclining toward

a deep breath and said, "You hate

His eyes flashed.

know you want your

"I wasn't seeking permission."

His eyes narrowed infinitesimally.

to the fucking

breath and said

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

He arched a brow.

"And, money."

jaw tightened.He looked furious and

understood the first but not

saying that you will be my

silent, he demanded, "Say the words, Elsa.I want to

blinked a few times

and