The Con (22 page)

"We're all booked. We need to find the
American desk and get in line so we can get our boarding passes and
check in our bags."

"Do you want to go have a smoke first? Once
we go through security you won't be able to smoke for a long time
and we still have a few hours before our flight even leaves."

"Good call, twinkle toes. You're coming with
me though. I'm not leaving you alone."

I nod my head and then grip the handle of my
suitcase as I drag it behind me and follow him to the designated
outdoor smoking area at the airport to watch him have his last
drags of nicotine until we arrive in Paris.

***

As we sit outside our departure gate waiting
for our flight to start boarding, I watch the TV screen playing on
the wall in the distance. A picture of Angelo and another man pops
up on the screen. I don't recognize him, and there is no sound to
hear what the newscaster is saying.

"They're dead," Jagger comments from beside
me. "Angelo and Damien were found in a ditch last night, their
insides gutted."

"Oh my gosh. Do you think it was
Matteo?"

"I'm sure it was. The authorities know it
was a cartel, but nothing will ever come of it. The police will be
paid off."

I replay all that Jagger said to Matteo on
the phone two nights ago. "Do you think Matteo killed them because
you told him they couldn't be trusted?"

"I'm not sure, twinkle toes. Probably, but
right now I'm only worried about our survival." He looks back down
at the magazine in his lap. He obviously doesn't want to discuss
this any longer and although I have a thousand more questions, none
of them are important right now.

I put my ear buds in and listen to the music
I loaded onto my new iPod yesterday. I've got everything from
Rihanna to Butch Walker on this thing. It's a great distraction
from Angelo and Damien's death.

Jagger is skimming through a hot rod
magazine with a blonde in a bikini on the cover. He bought it at
one of the shops inside the airport. It reminds me of that first
time I was in his room when I was twelve. His room was covered in
posters like the woman on the cover of the magazine he's flipping
through now. He comforted me that day, talking to me about things
that really didn't matter and then he gave me my first kiss.

Jagger will be my last kiss, too. He's a man
so he's probably not thinking about where we'll be in our
relationship five, ten, and twenty years down the road, but I'm not
thinking about it either because I know exactly where we'll
be–together. We were always meant to be together.

Jagger taps me gently on the knee and I look
over at him, pulling an ear bud out of my right ear.

"They just called us to board."

"Okay," I reply, smiling back at him and
then standing up to stretch my legs. I'm bobbing my head to the
music that still beats in my other ear as I grab my purse so I'm
ready to board.

"What are you listening to?" Jagger asks as
he grabs the ear bud that's swinging loosely down my chest and
lifts it to his ear. He's silent for a few moments as the bass
beats through his eardrum.

"Really?" he asks as he chuckles low under
his breath and rolls his eyes at me before dropping the ear bud
back down my body. "What am I going to do with you, twinkle toes?
You're lucky I love you like crazy and can't imagine being apart
from you."

Wrapping an arm around my shoulder he pulls
me into his side and kisses my temple before releasing me and
grabbing my hand. We walk to the gate with our hands clasped and
wait in line for the ticket agent to scan our tickets.

I take the loose ear bud and place it in my
other ear to drown out the airport noise and listen to the song
I've had on repeat all day. It's Lapdance by N.E.R.D. and although
it's cheesy for me to be listening to a song like this, I find
certain lyrics fit the theme of the last few days, and the new life
Jagger and I are making together.

This is one of the reasons I love music so
much. I can always find a song that fits my circumstances
perfectly, there's always a song to fit my life. The song makes my
life feel like it's one big movie. I used to pretend I was in a
movie as an escape from what I thought was a crappy life, but I
realize now that my life was never crappy. I was exactly where I
needed to be in order to one day be with Jagger. Sometimes you have
to take the bad to get the good, and I'd do everything all over
again, exactly the same way, because it led me to him.

I don't know what this life has ahead for
me, but as long as I have Jagger by my side I know we can get
through it together. It'll all be okay.

The ticket agent takes my ticket from my
hand and scans the bar code before handing it back to me, and
letting me pass. As I walk through the jet bridge that leads to the
plane, I sing the lyrics of Lapdance under my breath and smile,
because I am an outlaw with Jagger, and together we'll be quick on
the draw.

Epilogue

Somewhere in a sleepy old village in the
South of France live Keith Hamilton and Marissa Wood, their home
miles off the coast of the Mediterranean. Marissa works in a quaint
boutique and reads in her spare time, while Keith finds odd jobs
here and there. They live an undisturbed, loving, and happy life
together.

But sometimes, when things become too
mundane, Keith will find himself an opportunity that's too enticing
for Marissa to resist.

Because after all, you can change a person's
name but it doesn't change who they are on the inside.

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