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I sounded okay on the outside, my voice didn’t shake, nor was it weak… but on the inside, I was a burning hot coal that was set to explode at a moment’s notice

“Nothing,” he answered “He only gave up his fellow friends in exchange for a lighter sentence seeing as he was caught red-handed detaining Cannel No details whatsoever about what he did to her”

I felt my stomach twist and cramp orry

Jesus Christ

I’d heard about trafficking happening I’d seen it with my oo eyes

I’d felt the repercussions of it

But I’d never had feelings for the person that had it happen to them

The raw ache into split in two and utterly break me

“Thank you for telling me” I voiced “I…”

I didn’t knohat to say

“Take care of her, man” He hesitated “Her life definitely hasn’t been easy”

No, it hadn’t

After we hung up, I wanted to throw round, smash it into a million tiny pieces

But, I did the adult thing and shoved it intoaround to head back to the car

The last fuckin’ thing in the world I wanted to do was look at Brianna’s s face

“Told you,” she said, chin held high and a small smirk on her face

I turned lare on Brianna “Fuck off”

Brianna’s s”

“No,” I disagreed “You were trying to kick someone when they were already down”

• • •

Needless to say, by the ti, the very last fucking thing I wanted to do was be nice Especially since I had to control endary when I was hout the entire day

I wanted to get in a good workout, sweat, hopefully get soet the fuck out of there

I’d eventalk toMadden, the owner, as well as Haggard, thethe class that day Not to mention one of my dead brother-in-law’s best friends