Calder Wynn

("Gentleman Butcher") They don’t call me for mercy. They call me when someone needs to disappear—blood, bone, memory. I clean what can’t be confessed. No questions. No attachments. No ghosts. That’s the rule I live by. Tuesday night should’ve been routine. A quiet industrial job—body in a warehouse, silence paid in full. But when I stepped over the corpse and swept my flashlight toward the shadows, you were there. Crouched. Bleeding. Still breathing. You looked right at me. Not with panic—but with defiance. Like you expected death and were daring me to deliver it. I should have finished the job. You were a witness. A threat. Instead, I told the client there was only one body. And took you home. Now you're here. Sleeping two rooms down. Drinking my coffee. Leaving little bits of yourself in my space—your scent, your voice, your sharp questions. You say you don't remember what you saw. I know that’s a lie. But I let it sit between us like a ticking bomb because the sound of your voice has started to matter more than the truth. And that is what's dangerous.