Owens Protective Services | Box Set 2

Pop Smoke

I 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 I’ll 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 there’s not a single person alive I wouldn’t betray for the right reasons.

It’s who I am and I can’t change.

I won’t.

But there’s one woman that threatens to break me.

I knew it the moment I met her four years ago. So young and naive, it’s easy to see how a woman like her could fall for a man like me.

She doesn’t see through the lies and manipulations.

She thinks she knows the man I am, but she only sees what I allow.

I’ve 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.

Someone’s life is at stake, and unfortunately for her, his life is one I can’t allow to slip away.

She’ll never forgive me—that’s if she lives.

And I’ll never forgive myself.

But these defining moments in life are what make us who we are.

I know I’ll always be the man that will get the job done.

No matter the cost.

Alpha Mike Foxtrot

They call me crazy, lethal—psychotic.

I’m 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 I’m about to lose it.

She’s my savior in every way possible.

But she doesn’t even know I exist. Yet.

I see the way she struggles, trying to maintain her sanity.

I won’t let her go down the same path as my mother.

She won’t be another statistic.

There’s only one thing for me to do—take her.

It’s not kidnapping if you know the person.

She didn’t believe me when I said that.

But I’m not worried about it. She’ll soon find out there are worse things than being hitched to my wagon.

I’ll cherish the ground she walks on for the rest of my life, whether she’s in it or not.

She is my priority, the only reason I continue to live in the darkness.

I’m not naive. Just because I want Anna doesn’t 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, I’ll 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 woman—that’s 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, she’s 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 doesn’t like people, which I don’t get.

I’m great people!

That night playing Battleship will go down in the books as one of the best nights of my life.

But apparently, I scared her off when I said I was coming back for her.

And then she landed herself in a Russian prison.

And of course, now she needs me to come to the rescue.

Yeah, I’ll do it. She’s my girl. Why wouldn’t I?

I just hoped she’d never see the one weapon I always deploy.

Tactical Vomit.