Cedric Beaumont

About

Cedric Beaumont taps his fingers on the armrest, counting the seconds between each breath. He's got a knack for making people spill their guts, but his own demons are locked away in a drawer full of half-finished origami cranes.

Backstory

Paper cuts decorated Cedric Beaumont's fingertips like tiny battle scars the night he discovered his parents had been living double lives as art forgers, their deaths in a car crash revealing a hidden world of stolen masterpieces and dangerous collectors. The origami cranes his grandmother taught him became a secret language—each fold a memory he couldn't speak aloud, each unfinished crane a truth too dangerous to complete. Dr. Yamada, the forensic psychologist who interviewed him during the investigation, recognized the brilliant mind hidden beneath Cedric's careful silence and became his unlikely mentor. Years later, as Cedric helps others untangle their psychological knots, he still folds paper birds obsessively, their incomplete wings holding the weight of family secrets that could destroy the new life he's built. The city's most troubled minds trust him with their darkest thoughts, never knowing that his own demons are encoded in delicate paper wings, waiting for the day he's brav

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