Tainted Blood

‘Fine, I staged the attack, but I only did it because I love you!’ Landon’s words brought to mind Carl’s. Both of them did crazy things in the name of love. Love was supposed to make you a better person, but the two of them presented nasty evidence to the contrary. It made me doubt myself—was I capable of loving someone in a normal, non-possessive, non-destructive way, or was I doomed to repeat Landon’s mistakes? I took a deep, cleansing breath, touched the purple diamond wedding ring on my left hand. It gave me strength. ‘I’m sorry, Kieran’s the only one I love now.’ Landon laughed, in a bitter, scornful way I never thought he was capable of. He strode around the desk, came to stand next to me in front of the closed door. ‘Is that why you can walk away from the Finnegan fortune? Because you think you have Kieran Valentine now?’ Landon’s alcohol-laced breath blew onto the nape of my neck and made my hair stand on end. ‘How do you think he’ll react once he finds out you are not a Finneg