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Frankie

Five years ago

She eeter than anything I’d ever tasted, an addiction, my obsession

I pulled her in closer, curlingher tethered to me forever She was tiny coht but womanly

“Frankie,” she whispered against roan

I loved when she said hs “You knowme”

Yeah, I knew that, but I didn’t care It didn’t change the fact that being with Nadja Romonoff was forbidden in her father’s eyes

I didn’t care that Nadja’s father was Petrov Ro official in the bratva I didn’t care, because I’d fallen in love with this girl, wanted our lives entwined forever I didn’t care that e did could get me killed I didn’t care that her father would have no proble it on a stake on principle alone

None of that mattered, because I loved her more than I loved myself, more than I loved anybody else And that included my brothers

She was light where I was dark, good where I was bad We had a chance , an accidental run-in e met, when she’d co me afloat

My life had been brutality and pain, violence and hardness But Nadja showed me there was more

There was so much more to life with her by my side

And ever since then, she’d been reen eyes I’d risk anything to be with her, to make sure she stayed byher take all of me

“Frankie,” she led whisper

Hearing her saycontrol

“I don’t want anyone else in ainst htly to me “You’re the only man I’ll ever love”

I couldn’t hold back htened around her, as I inhaled deeply and took her scent into my body