Corrupted Desire

The world is going to burn and I’m the one holding the match.

Prison hardens a man. My ex dumping me during the trial was the icing on the cake. Okay, I was guilty, but he deserved it. Two years in and the inmates of Cold Iron fear me. It’s lonely but it’s the price of survival.

My sentence is cut short. All I have to do is take down a kingpin flooding Southland with drugs. It gets complicated when I fall for a Scottish police detective. Oh well, I take what I wan and right now, I want him. Here’s hoping he doesn’t discover my past and put me behind bars.

I’ve never been one for attachments. The only people who believe I’m more than a degenerate get taken and I realize too late that I’m Southland’s only hope. I’m not the hero it deserves, but I’m all that they’ve got.

The heroes are playing with fire. I’m not the one about to get burned.