Painted Lady

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There's a fine line between love and death and I am that line.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Evangeline</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My mother was my first pimp.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I was six.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To say my life has been a game of survive and adapt is an understatement.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But now some sexy-ass glorified cater-waiter has walked into my life and messed with my perfectly crafted world and I need to find a way to walk him back out.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Permanently.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Shep</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The media called me a hero.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Department called me a shining example of Savannah's fellowship of firefighters.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I just wanted to be left the fuck alone so I could cook.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After early retirement I traded in my axe for a chef's knife convinced I was done putting out fires.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Little did I know that a brush with a beautiful but troubled woman was about to set my world ablaze.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Clarke</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After years of devotion to the NYPD I was out on my ass and blacklisted for doing the 'right thing.'</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Exiled to Shitville USA and sentenced to serve the remainder of my life as a small town sheriff busting petty teenage criminals and meth heads.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>However when a pair of unsolved cases continues to haunt me I'm drawn to what could be the biggest case of my career but it could also cost me my soul.</span></p>