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But one thing was for sure

One thing never changed…

We were friends

Getting to know her was like waking up frofor the

Which was the only way I could explain it and even that didn’t do it justice

I knew I sounded like a goddah Briggs’ eyes I realized pretty quickly that I hadn’t even started really traveling till she was bythe ti new people everywhere ent She still didn’t get high off her own stash so she would buy from the suppliers before it officially became hers

To see the world like that was surreal and it was allit wasn’t all fun and ga ass off trying to make money anyway I could to support us It was pretty easy since technically I was just a tourist passing through Business owners loved that, being able to pay me under the table for a few days’ work

If I wasn’t keeping Briggs safe with the shit she had to do, I orking onto be dependent on her and I never wanted her to think I was using her for money

She always toldwith her, but she also didn’t want one even if it was only for a few hours in the day

She hated it

It was unreal how fast you could become attached to a person Which was funny because all I ever wanted was to run away from my life and everyone in it, but there I was

Wanting to spend an eternity in hers

Briggs didn’t like to talk about the past In fact, she refused to let me in to that part of her life, the part that led her up to this point in tiured over time she would open up to me when she was ready I just had to be patient

Her future was mine

I kneas her first real friend She toldif I said that I didn’t love that she chosehow lonely that reith Alex and the boys, even though eren’t on speaking tered to send my parents and Half-Pint a postcard every once in awhile

I knew Briggs worked for Alejandro Martinez but not because his name came out of her mouth The business associates, as she called them, said his name often It was hard for me to follow since theysurprise the first time I heard her speak it so damn fluently

I jacked-off in the shower like a fucking thirteen-year-old boy e got back to the hotel that afternoon Re the sexy-as-fuck tone of her voice as she was talking to thehard I saw stars

One night, twowith a construction company for a few days, I ca like a fool Of course I walked over to her and caught her expression in the air, placing it onAnd it alwaysup her entire face It was the first ti happy, and I didn’t even know the cause, but I didn’t care

The look on her face was all that mattered to me

She pulled me on the couch next to her and told me I didn’t have to leave her any for the last three er over ot uard and before I had any time to react to what she just shared

There was a knock on the door

A man named Pablo showed up with a suitcase full of clothes, suits, shoes, everything I needed and things I most likely wouldn’t ever wear They were all packed neatly waiting to be used He handed me an envelope with a letter from Martinez and then a briefcase The letter stated that everything I needed was in the briefcase, including a business debit card that I had to use for everything It already had twelve thousand dollars on it He called it back pay for the last three s He went on to say he would be paying me a thousand dollars a week on that card for uard

All I kept thinking was that I would have continued doing it for free

I opened the briefcase and found two passports, and the business credit card he mentioned before There was some other shit in there that I wasn’t sure what to do with What caught uns One was secured in a black leather suspender holster and the other in what seeuns had permits that matched the names on the passports in the briefcase Luckily, I kne to use a gun

Most Southern boys do

Everything in that briefcase was a lie Every last docu real There wasn’t a chance in Hell anyone would spot them as fakes

Briggs was so fucking happy So, I didn’t think twice about it, I started working for Martinez because all I wanted to do

Was keep her safe

From that point on out we only stayed at five-star hotels Partying with some of the richest,the ti for Martinez ca I never had before

But alanted

All of it was new and exciting I didn't give hed the fact that I orking for a drug lord

Although Briggs called it organized cri It wasn’t just about the drugs That orked in it was just an aspect of what he ran and controlled

A new briefcase aiting for me at each new location we traveled to, sometimes it would be in the limo that picked us up fro for oddauns with per eye

Each day was a new day with Briggs by my side

Life couldn’t have been better

We were lying on the bed with our legs entwined, our bodies next to each other, watching araspberries on her neck, she was thrashing around like crazy, shrieking froht her

She loved it

She just loved to pretend like she didn’t

“Austin! Stop!” She laughed uncontrollably

Desperately trying to hold backit didn’t matter I would stop when I wanted to

And I didn’t want to

She sideswipedunder

“Ohhhh, little girl, that’s a way to get hurt,” I threatened, grabbing her ar them above her head

I hatedtortured as a child byit was funny to tickle my neck for entertainment

My body was now on top of hers and I saw it ilazed over and her pupils dilated Revealing the look of lust that I had grown so accustom to

It had been five months since I left with her and all we did was talk, cuddle, and flirt relentlessly with each other I couldn’t re sex, and yet it didn’t fucking bother s and I shared was deeper than any piece of pussy could ever offer me Not that I didn’t want to bury my cock deep inside her

She was everything

She bit her lip, waiting fo

r what I was going to do next I hadn’t kissed her since the night on her balcony That one kiss was all I had to hold me over

“What’s your na the effect she always had on me

I’d probably asked her like fifty tied the subject or she would blatantly lie to s”

As the months went by, I learned more and more about her How she would bite her lip when she was nervous, like she was doing right no she would never leave the hotel without wearingaround her face How the clothes she ere always revealing, but it wasn’t because she wanted to show off her body

It was the tattoos

For some reason she wanted them on full display It wasn’t to show off her ink It was her way of sharing a piece of her soul with the world she tried to keep at bay

One of the first things that caught ht it was a new book The innocence about her exposed every time she told me about the characters and the storylines, as if they were her friends or she was living vicariously through them She bea in the book based off her expressions Especially if so, she would place her hand over her heart Like she was trying to hold it together

Briggs also had sad moments Her reflect tiet lost in her ownHow she would pretend to be sleeping when she kneatching her sleep

Getting lost in her beauty

These were just to na I learned about her, it wasn’t what I craved

And the crazy thing about that was she knew it

“Austin…” she pleaded forher truths

I wouldn’t until I knew them

Every Last One

“These last fivewith you”

She sed hard, her resistance wavering

“No one has ever, s is a part of you I know she exists but I also know that she doesn’t Tellyou’ve been drea about”

Her eyes widened and her mouth parted

“You talk in your sleep You also kind of snore”

“I don’t snore” She tried to slap