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—"

fuck is going

shut as his cold voice penetrated the warm air inside the

and then he

you think?"

that followed

leave my

you have said.But I came here for

Oh god.

No.

blurted out the first thing that

afternoon.What can I do for

on me, making me shrink

ran down my form, taking in my faded brown

the years and the way his eyes

office and wait

but his sharp, "Now"

I stepped out, I heard him saying to Kaden,

him as I made my way toward his

I

musky cologne I had detected yesterday was prominent

filled my insides with

way toward the

to do, I looked around

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

of his character made no

the door

inside, bringing his coldness with him

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

he had

at each other, the memories of our past silent and waiting

would acknowledge was how much he

He questioned.

here for me.And if you were so

tongue as his words hurt

to say, little

that quiet when you

the

I broke something so

hold on my tears,

was surprised

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

sight made

on then, let's hear what you've

that

made a disgusted sound

it, little girl.If I could, I would strangle you or maybe chain you in

am inclining toward the

fists, took a deep breath and said,

His eyes flashed.

I know you want your revenge.You can

"I wasn't seeking permission."

His eyes narrowed infinitesimally.

to the fucking

in a breath and said it

do whatever you want.Anything.The only thing I want in

He arched a brow.

"And, money."

looked furious and

the first

will

he demanded, "Say the

the hot rush of tears and blinked a few times as I recalled my promise

swallowed and