He’d dedicated his life to trying to understand how a man went from laying eyes on someone to deciding to wrap his hands around their neck. How the switch flipped in a man’s mind as his gaze traveled the lines of another person’s body. What he thought as his eyes drank in the pretty face of a stranger and a vision of her death bloomed like virus cells growing under a microscope slide. And everything that came after. What pliers did to flesh. The definition of piquerism. What skin looked like from the inside.
