The emotional whiplash, the drinking, and the constant strain wrecked Dominic's body, and little by little, no matter what the actresses did to please him, his body stopped responding at all, until he'd become permanently impotent. To hang on to the last scraps of his pride, he grew dependent on illegal drugs, which worsened his mental state, and his deteriorating mind drove him to take even more, until within six months he was a gaunt shadow of the man he'd been.
The cruelest irony came from his years of chaotic, unprotected s*x, because he'd contracted a virus that caused progressive organ damage, and though Harrington Capital might hold the wealth of a small nation, no amount of money could cure him. Dominic lay in a hospital bed and stared at the gray sky over the Crown District, and
