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LOVE IS A DISEASE

Author: DebbyWrites
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DAMIAN BLACKWOOD

I wanted Eleanor away because I was in love with her.

I had felt this way from the very first time I set eyes on her, and understood when my father declared that ‘love made a man weak’ after that day. Few waiters had poured wine on me, and even fewer had managed to get away with it. I did not care who they were—old, young, male, female—they had paid for it in one way or another until Eleanor Sinclair. Before I knew what was going on, she had walked away scot free and kept her job, all thanks to me.

This made me so angry with myself that I resolved to forget about her.

Until I saw her with my grandfather, and then kidnapped the man that almost stabbed her with a knife and even planted a kiss on her lips. That had to be the exact moment I knew…

Eleanor Sinclair had to go. She had an effect on me that I did not like.

How had it even happened in the first place?

She was to serve my wine and had somehow tripped, the bottle turning the liquid splashing onto my shirt. I
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