I have never once looked at a crime scene and felt anything but the need to bring someone to justice.
Until now.
The bodies are posed. Theatrical. Every wound deliberate, every detail chosen. A message carved in flesh for every predator who ever harmed a child and thought they'd gotten away with it.
My colleagues see a monster.
I see monsters too. I just can't figure out who I mean anymore.
Then I find him. All sharp wit and sharper cheekbones, with a smile that makes me forget I'm supposed to be suspicious. He shouldn't be anywhere near this case. He keeps ending up exactly where I am anyway.
He should be in handcuffs.
He would be, if I weren't the one letting him disappear into the dark every single time.
I tell myself I need more evidence. I tell myself I'm playing a long game.
I think I'm lying.
I've given my whole life to the law. To order. To the belief that justice has to mean something beyond revenge, beyond rage, beyond what any one person decides the world deserves.
I believed that.
I don't know what I believe anymore.
I've spent my whole life on the right side of the line. Then he winked at me, and I understood, for the first time, exactly why people fall.
Genre: Gay Romance
Until now.
The bodies are posed. Theatrical. Every wound deliberate, every detail chosen. A message carved in flesh for every predator who ever harmed a child and thought they'd gotten away with it.
My colleagues see a monster.
I see monsters too. I just can't figure out who I mean anymore.
Then I find him. All sharp wit and sharper cheekbones, with a smile that makes me forget I'm supposed to be suspicious. He shouldn't be anywhere near this case. He keeps ending up exactly where I am anyway.
He should be in handcuffs.
He would be, if I weren't the one letting him disappear into the dark every single time.
I tell myself I need more evidence. I tell myself I'm playing a long game.
I think I'm lying.
I've given my whole life to the law. To order. To the belief that justice has to mean something beyond revenge, beyond rage, beyond what any one person decides the world deserves.
I believed that.
I don't know what I believe anymore.
I've spent my whole life on the right side of the line. Then he winked at me, and I understood, for the first time, exactly why people fall.
Genre: Gay Romance