Hiding From the Past
If you ever get in deep with a loan shark, be clever about how you sell them out if you're going to be that dumb. They will find you and they will try to hurt you. I got lucky and managed to run away after they found my witness protection hideout. I only had contact with one old friend, Kate, someone I trusted with my life. She got me through a lot of the misery. When I had to run for the fifth time, I messaged her from a new number. She had been trying to keep tabs but the stress was getting to her. She said she'd been thinking about ways to get me out of trouble, or at least not get tracked down so easily. Her best suggestion was Elixir. I was not happy with that suggestion, especially since I didn't know how I'd look. I mean, I'd heard about it, but I was a guy. A guy who would not look good as a girl. My friend was not taking no for an answer. She didn't want to be worried about me all the time anymore. She demanded I meet her at a hotel, and how could I say...