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The New Beginning

Author: Elizabeth
last update publish date: 2026-06-30 03:19:59

Months bled into one another, and the world finally started to feel like it could breathe again. The rescues never stopped, but they stopped being raids in the dark. Now they were missions with names, with teams, with hope. Cedric stood at the center of it all, voice steady as he coordinated the deprogramming, the therapy, the new safe houses that were rising like islands in a sea of broken kids.

Dozens of them. Scattered across continents, hidden in plain sight or buried in the dark. Each one
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  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Desert

    The desert didn't care who they were.By day the sun beat down on the sand until the air wobbled. By night the heat drained out of the ground all at once and the cold got into their bones. There was no shade, no water, no food. Cedric led the clones through narrow canyons and across cracked riverbeds and up ridges of loose rock that slid out from under their feet. His boots were gone, left behind in a cell he never wanted to see again, and the soles of his feet had split open somewhere in the first hour. He felt every step. He kept walking.The youngest was a girl named Nova, maybe six, who hadn't said a word since they left the facility. Sometime on the second afternoon she stopped in the middle of a dry wash and sat down in the dirt like someone had cut her strings. Her lips were gray and cracked. When Cedric knelt and touched her cheek, her skin felt hot and papery.He didn't ask her to get up. He turned around, pulled her onto his back, and hooked her thin arms around his neck. Sh

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Prisoner's Rebellion

    The facility was a maze. Hallways split into hallways, and under the red emergency lights they all looked the same. Daniel didn't seem to care. He walked like a man who'd run these routes in his sleep, and he took Cedric into the maintenance tunnels, a cramped crawl of pipes and cable trays that smelled like hot metal and dust.They had to stop twice for patrols. The first time they squeezed behind a coolant pipe while two guards strolled by close enough that Cedric could hear their radios crackle. The second time Daniel didn't bother hiding. He pulled a strip of black tape out of his pocket, slapped it over a camera lens, then popped open a junction box and twisted two wires together. His hands were steady now. Whatever fear he'd walked into that cell with, he'd left it somewhere behind."Eleven cameras on this level," he said under his breath. "I've spent weeks figuring out which ones lie."They went down a ladder and through a steel hatch, and Daniel stopped so suddenly that Cedric

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Surrender

    The Bureau's black site sat somewhere under the Nevada desert, and Cedric never saw the surface again after they brought him in. The elevator ride down took so long his ears popped twice. When the doors opened there was a hallway of gray concrete and a light that hummed like a trapped insect.They took his jacket first, then his boots, then the thin chain he'd worn around his neck since he was a kid. A woman in a paper mask scanned every inch of him. Another man photographed him from the front, the side, and the back, and told him to open his mouth. A technician drew four vials of his blood and wrote a number on each one. Nobody said his name. Nobody said much of anything.The cell was the last stop. Two guards walked him in, and the door shut behind him with a soft hiss, like a refrigerator closing.No window. No clock. Just a bench bolted to the wall, a drain in the floor, and a vent that breathed in and out on a slow cycle. Cedric stood in the middle of the room and waited for his

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Eve of Battle

    Cedric shoved the screen door open with his shoulder and caught it before it could bang shut.The cold slapped him awake. He stood on the porch in a thin shirt and let it sting. Inside, the family lay scattered across the cots, and half of them were faking sleep. He'd been listening to it for an hour. Nobody breathes that evenly when they're really out.The stars were thick over the trees. He stared at them until his eyes watered.Behind him the boards creaked. Bare feet, slow. Then Gianni's arms came around his waist and a chin settled on his shoulder."Go to bed," Gianni said."I can't.""I know. You've been out here forty minutes."Cedric snorted. "You counted?""I always count." Gianni kissed the side of his neck and stayed there a second. "Scared?"Cedric took his time. "Yeah. Really scared.""Of the Bureau?""No. I'm not even scared of dying. I got over that years ago." He gripped the rail harder. "It's you. And them. I'm scared of leaving."He tipped his head toward the window,

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Alliance with the Devil

    Gianni hit the door before it finished closing.He went straight for Marcus, fist already swinging, and Alex caught him around the chest just in time. Leo grabbed his arm. Gianni dragged them both two steps across the floor before they got him stopped."You brought him here?" His voice cracked on the last word. "Cedric, are you out of your mind?"The safe house was one low room of concrete, cold enough that everyone's breath showed. Somebody had left a lantern burning on the table. The family had been waiting there for hours, and from the look of them, none had slept."The man who ruined us," Lily said. She was crying, and she was too angry to wipe it away. "You walked him in through the front door like a guest."Mia had backed up against the wall with her arms crossed over her stomach. She didn't say a word. Sera stared at Marcus like she was trying to decide if he was really standing there. The new clones sat bunched together on a cot, and one of them kept whispering to the others t

  • The Don's Dirty Obsession    The Waterfall

    The water was cold enough to stop his heart.It slammed into him like a wall, and then it was everywhere, pulling him down, spinning him end over end until he couldn't tell the surface from the riverbed. Something hard caught his ribs. Something else raked across his thigh. He tried to kick upward and the current dragged him back, indifferent, enormous. His lungs burned. His shoulder, already wrecked from the fall out of the SUV, flared white. The last thing he saw was a thin gray light far above him, wavering and shrinking, and then even that went out.He woke to the smell of woodsmoke.For a long time he lay still and didn't try to understand it. There was a ceiling of rough-hewn beams over him, and the crackle of a stove somewhere to his left, and a weight of thick wool blankets piled to his chin. His ribs had been wrapped tight. Someone had cleaned the gash on his thigh and stitched it with neat, careful knots. Under the woodsmoke hung another smell, faint and sour, one he knew fr

  • 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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