Cut by the Don
"Vincent's world was a cancer. It needed radical surgery. Your public disgrace, the branding...
it severed your ties to that life irrevocably. It made you a victim in the eyes of all. And it broke him. A man who believes he murdered the one good thing in his life is already in his own grave. He will never recover."
I lay back against the pillows. The world tilted. A pawn. I had been a pawn in their game. The fury that rose was colder and sharper than any I had felt for Vincent.
"I am not a tool," I whispered, my voice trembling with the effort to contain it.