The Butcher — 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 without question.

It was time to live up to the name I'd been given.