Pop SmokeI am the shadow that moves in the night, the one that has you constantly looking over your shoulder.I work within the bounds of the law when it suits me, but make one wrong move and I8217ll throw the rule book out the window to end you.My job requires a certain level of deception, an ability to put aside feelings and relationships to get the job done.I can honestly say there8217s not a single person alive I wouldn8217t betray for the right reasons.It8217s who I am and I can8217t change.I won8217t.But there8217s one woman that threatens to break me.I knew it the moment I met her four years ago. So young and naive, it8217s easy to see how a woman like her could fall for a man like me.She doesn8217t see through the lies and manipulations.She thinks she knows the man I am, but she only sees what I allow.I8217ve done everything in my power to keep her safe from me, but now I have to do something that could nearly gut me.I have to betray her.Someone8217s life is at stake, and unfortunately for her, his life is one I can8217t allow to slip away.She8217ll never forgive me8212that8217s if she lives.And I8217ll never forgive myself.But these defining moments in life are what make us who we are.I know I8217ll always be the man that will get the job done.No matter the cost.Alpha Mike Foxtrot They call me crazy, lethal8212psychotic.I8217m all those things and more.The darkness calls to me, sending me spiraling out of control.But one woman calms me, bringing me back from the edge when I8217m about to lose it.She8217s my savior in every way possible.But she doesn8217t even know I exist. Yet.I see the way she struggles, trying to maintain her sanity.I won8217t let her go down the same path as my mother.She won8217t be another statistic.There8217s only one thing for me to do8212take her.It8217s not kidnapping if you know the person.She didn8217t believe me when I said that.But I8217m not worried about it. She8217ll soon find out there are worse things than being hitched to my wagon.I8217ll cherish the ground she walks on for the rest of my life, whether she8217s in it or not.She is my priority, the only reason I continue to live in the darkness.I8217m not naive. Just because I want Anna doesn8217t mean I can have her.I am not a good man, but I am the man for her. I will protect her with my life, slaughter anyone that tries to take her from me.And when an enemy threat looms, I8217ll remove them just like any other baddie.There is no surviving when The Phantom is calling to me.Got Your Six Action, Adventure, and a good woman8212that8217s all I crave.A chance to prove my love for a woman by risking my life for her.Everyone else gets to do it, so why not me?Except, I never imagined she would vanish without a trace.I thought she had been taken by a gang or a serial killer.It turns out, she8217s what they call a runner.Yeah, you heard me right. She runs when people get too close to her.And not because she has emotional baggage or something.She doesn8217t like people, which I don8217t get.I8217m great