RUNAWAY

MXM story 3 in a series of 6

Follows Let Them Eat Cake & A Love Like That.

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Shifting around, desperately wrapping the threadbare blanket around him, George cried.

He'd had a home, he'd had a life, he'd had a family.

Until his life had gone to shit, and he'd had no choice but to escape.

Freezing, starving, he huddled into the recess of the doorway, gazing at the sweet treats and flowers in the shop window.

"LET THEM EAT CAKE", the sign above the shop glowed in the early morning Street lights.

George was numb, cold, unwanted.

He would die here.

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What the.....? Steve gasped as he rounded the doorway to the shop, "Nick, Nick, come quickly".......

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Freezing, starving and ready to die George Tate finally gets the help he needs when Steve and Nick Dance happen across him one cold morning in the doorway of their shop.

Taken in by the older couple and their sons, given proper food and clean clothes for the first time in months and the comfort of a big soft sofa, he's safe at last.

After a minor hiccup that causes him to try to run again, caught by Nick, George opens up and reveals his painful story.
Slowly coming out of himself after a few shaky moments during which Blake opens up about his own experiences on the streets, he blooms into a bright young man that loves photography.

With help, support and care his life slowly comes together again.

Georges life changes for the better, but on his journey back to himself he finds out things about his past that he'd really rather not have known and he's plagued by nightmares.

Secret brothers he never knew he had and the horrible truth about who his real father is turns his life inside out again.

With the care of the Dance family though he grows and finds success, meeting Aiden Walsh through his work, their relationship strained at first they soon become friends then later, lovers.

But that love is threatened in an unpredicted turn of events, when George learns some unwanted truths about Aiden.