The Don's Dirty Obsession
He just stayed, steady as a tide, until they trusted the staying enough to talk if they wanted to.
And Cedric… he was the heart. The survivor who had walked through hell and come out carrying the others on his back. He still woke some nights with his pulse hammering, still flinched at certain sounds, a particular pitch of laughter, the scrape of a chair on tile, but he'd learned to let Gianni's hand on his chest be the thing that brought him back instead of the thing that made it worse. That had taken time too. Healing wasn't a door you walked through once. It was a tide, in and out, and some nights the water came up higher than others.
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