The Butcher (2014) by Jennifer Hillier

Author:Jennifer Hillier
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781476734231
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2014-01-01T11:00:00+00:00

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All Matt wanted to do was forget the past week had ever happened. Between his near fling with the Fresh Network producer and the awkward-as-hell night where Sam had caught him masturbating, he wanted to press the backspace button on his life and delete everything that had happened over the past little while. And let’s not forget that he had accidentally killed his friend, PJ Wu. And then dismembered the guy’s body . . . not so accidentally.

It was horrific. All of it. And he knew that if he let himself think about it too long, he might lose it completely.

Karen, the sexy TV producer, was becoming less and less sexy with every annoying text message and voicemail she sent. She’d been back in San Francisco for a few days, but even from eight hundred miles away, she was nearing bunny boiler territory. Matt was half expecting her to show up at any moment with a knife, screaming, “I will not be ignored!”

And Sam . . . that was another story. The two of them were barely speaking, and the argument they’d had the other night had spiraled into a giant clusterfuck. Yeah, it was totally embarrassing to be caught red-handed (har dee har har), but goddammit, the reason his girlfriend had felt the need to spy was even worse. She had seen him with Karen that night at the Pink Door, and had assumed he was sleeping with the producer. She wasn’t totally off base, but he’d gotten defensive anyway, and they’d shouted at each other until she’d left in tears.

And to compound matters, Matt did feel like a dick. Deep down, everything his girlfriend had yelled at him was true. He was emotionally unavailable and unwilling to commit. He never put their relationship first. His career mattered more to him than anything, and yes, he probably would end up alone if he didn’t get his priorities straight.

And he had done so many things—so many awful, horrific things—that he wasn’t proud of. He knew he had to change. He just didn’t know how. Add to that the pressure of the TV deal and the angst over PJ being labeled as missing . . . it was so overwhelming, Matt didn’t know where to start.

Matt could tell that the restaurant was controlled chaos outside his office door, but he chose to remain holed up at his desk. There was too much to catch up on, and he wasn’t in the mood to talk to anyone. He wondered, and not for the first time, how he’d managed to get so far away from the reason he’d become a chef in the first place. Other than the day he’d cooked a meal for Detective Sanchez and the cooking they made him do for the TV show, when was the last time he’d truly been an artist in the kitchen? He crunched numbers all day, told people what to do, and signed paychecks. He hadn’t gone into this business so he could cook

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