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The Meeting

Author: Elizabeth
last update publish date: 2026-11-11 04:39:28

The island came up out of the sea like a postcard. White stone, turquoise water, terraced gardens running down to a little private beach. No dock. No road. The only way in was the helicopter, which meant that whoever you were meeting had already decided how the meeting would go.

Cedric went alone. Gianni had spent most of the morning telling him it was a stupid idea.

"They'll grab you the second you land," Gianni had said, pacing the safe house until Cedric wanted to tie him to a chair. "And wh
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  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    Temptation

    The safe house was quiet at night. Rain ticked against the window and the pipes knocked somewhere in the wall, and Cedric sat in the study with one lamp on and the folder open in front of him. He had read the summary three times. It still would not sit still in his head.His blood carried antibodies that could cure cancer. Alzheimer's. HIV. His DNA could be turned into vaccines and treatments, maybe even cures, for diseases that had been killing people since before anyone had names for them. The projections ran for pages. Kids who would keep their hair. Old women who would still know their daughters. Whole wards closed down because nobody was left to fill the beds.Then came the last section, the one he suspected they had hoped he would skip.The process needed live samples. Bone marrow, spinal fluid, tissue. Again and again, for years. The side effects were listed in flat clinical language that somehow made them worse. Chronic pain. Exhaustion. An immune system so weak that a cold co

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Meeting

    The island came up out of the sea like a postcard. White stone, turquoise water, terraced gardens running down to a little private beach. No dock. No road. The only way in was the helicopter, which meant that whoever you were meeting had already decided how the meeting would go.Cedric went alone. Gianni had spent most of the morning telling him it was a stupid idea."They'll grab you the second you land," Gianni had said, pacing the safe house until Cedric wanted to tie him to a chair. "And what then? We can't reach you out there. Nobody can.""If they wanted to grab me, they'd have done it already. They want me to walk in on my own feet.""That doesn't mean it's safe. It just means they're patient."Cedric hadn't argued, mostly because Gianni was right. But he needed to see her face. Some answers you couldn't get from a distance.Four men in pale suits met him on the pad before the rotors had even slowed. They were polite about it, which somehow made it worse. One ran a scanner down

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Genesis Project

    "Eighty years," Anna said. "That's how long they've been at it.""Say that again," Leo said."Eighty years.""I heard you. I just wanted to hear it twice."Nobody smiled. The safe house in Montana had stopped being safe a week ago and turned into something closer to a war room. Maps papered the walls, pinned over each other until the corners curled. Screens glowed in every corner. The whole family had crowded around the long table: Cedric and Gianni at one end, Lily and Mia shoulder to shoulder, Alex with his chair tipped back, Jina, Sera, Elena the clone sitting very straight, and Hope pressed against Cedric's side. She hadn't left it in three days and nobody had the heart to argue.Anna tapped a key. "The Genesis Project predates the Ouroboros Society. It predates Enzo Senior. A group of scientists founded it in the forties. They believed they could engineer a superior human race.""Believed," Mia said."Still believe, as far as I can tell. Enzo was one of their students. He took th

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The New Dawn

    "Turn it up," Gianni said. "Anna, turn it up."Anna found the remote without looking away from the screen. A woman in a navy suit stood outside the Capitol with microphones jammed under her chin, and behind her a crowd was chanting something Cedric couldn't catch yet."...the documents describe kidnappings as routine," the woman said. "Experiments, disappearances, children shuffled between facilities like stock. Congress has called an emergency session.""Emergency." Alex slouched on the couch with a blanket over his knees and a bruise the colour of a plum along his jaw. "They've known for thirty years.""Some of them have." Cedric didn't turn around. "Most never asked.""Is that meant to cheer me up?""No."The picture jumped to a courthouse. Cameras, flashes popping like gunfire. Helen Vance came down the steps with her wrists held out in front of her, hair half undone, the long dark coat swapped for something grey and shapeless. She kept her chin level. She was smiling a little, at

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Fall of the Bureau

    "Move, move, left flank!" Gianni's voice cut through the smoke. "Don't let them reach the trucks!"Cedric was already on his feet. The battle did not last. The Bureau's guards had come to collect one man, and they found themselves ringed by his whole family, outnumbered and outguessed, with nowhere to put their weapons. Rifles clattered onto the tarmac. Somebody shouted surrender and somebody else took it up. Cedric barely heard it."Alex!" Jina was already there, hacking through a zip tie with her blade. "Cedric, he's here, I've got him.""Is he.""Breathing. Annoyed. Yes.""I heard that," Alex croaked from the ground.Cedric let the relief hit him for exactly one second. Then he saw movement at the edge of his vision. A long dark coat, running. Vance was halfway to the far end of the strip, where a helicopter sat with its blades already turning, and she was not looking back."Cedric, no," Gianni started.He didn't hear the rest. He ran flat out, grit stinging his palms, lungs burnin

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Prisoners' Dilemma

    "Play it again," Cedric said."That's four times." Anna's thumb hovered over the key."Again."She pressed it. The screen stuttered and Alex filled it, one eye swollen shut, a split along his lip already gone dark. He looked straight into the lens like a man reading a line he'd written himself. "Don't come for me. It's a trap. Save the others."The feed cut off mid breath. Cedric's hands had started to shake, so he pushed them flat against the table until the edge dug in."They're torturing him.""They're showing us they can," Gianni said. His voice was level, too level, the way a rope is level right before it takes weight. "That's different.""Is it?""We'll get him back.""You keep saying that.""Because I keep meaning it."Cedric looked away first. A chair creaked behind them. Anna cleared her throat, then again, which was how she announced things she didn't want to announce."There's more. A message came in ten minutes ago. From Vance.""What does she want?""To negotiate.""Of co

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    Take It Or Leave It

    "You start Monday.”Cedric blinked, dragging his attention away from the cop’s mouth, the kind of mouth that looked like it knew how to do very interesting things in bed, not focusing at all on the words being said.Brett had dropped him off at the police station twenty minutes ago with a “good luc

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    Big, Happy Family.

    “Jesus Christ, what the fuck happened to your face?”Cedric kept his hood up and his head down, ignoring the pitying looks and questions from late-night commuters on the subway who caught sight of his busted face. He could see the full extent of the damage reflected in the scratched train window,

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    Double Trouble

    The guy Cedric was just about to fuck ran off, leaving Cedric’s alone to scramble for an exit strategy, What the hell was he supposed to do? Talk his way out? Run? Fight? Beg?There was absolutely nowhere for him to hide, the alley had only one single exit, currently blocked by three guys who looke

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    Blowjobs and Job Offers

    “Shut the hell up, don’t take your mouth off my cock unless I say so.”Cedric huffed with annoyance, dragging his teeth along the underside of the guy’s cock so it would hurt, as payback for talking to him like he was some cheap fuck. Well, he was one, but still…“Cut that out. What kind of pornsta

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