The Butcher by L. Wilder

They call me the butcher.
I wash away the sins of the most notorious men in the state.
I take their crimes and make them disappear.
I’m not innocent in this game of cat and mouse, but let me be clear.
I’m not like the men I work for—I’m not a cold-blooded killer.
I’m simply the cleaner.
Or at least that’s all I was…
When I found her, everything changed.
I started to feel things I didn’t want to feel.
I started to want things I had no business wanting.
But there was something about Everleigh…
To make her mine, I would have to save her.
To save her, I would have to cross lines I never thought I would cross.
For her, I would cross them all.
It was time to live up to the name I’d been given.