Cruel Legacy

Cruel Legacy Cruel Legacy Heartless Heirs of Canyon Falls Book 1 Dakota Lee Copyright © 2023 Dakota Lee ISBN:978-1-961378-00-1 Model Photographer: Micro All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under the copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance or similarities to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author. The author acknowledges the trademark status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/ use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners. This book is licensed for your personal use. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased by an individual or organization, for your use, then you should return it and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s work. Created with Vellum Acknowledgments I can’t believe it. This is my fourth book, and it feels like it’s the first one all over again. I guess the nerves never really go away. First and foremost, I’d like to thank my children, for putting up with all the evenings when I ordered take-out, or made them find something microwaveable to eat, because I was too exhausted to cook. I’d also like to thank them for putting up with my non-stop chatter about my writing process and story ideas, even when their eyes were glazing over. I promise to find some book friends, I can talk story concepts and publishing goals with. To the amazing BETA Readers who took time to read and provide feedback for this story. Thank you times a million. I’m still nervous, but your input helped me be a little less nervous. (Please see above… anybody wanna be my sounding board moving forward, so I can give my kids a break?) And to the readers, thank you for picking up this book, and thank you for giving me a chance. I hope you enjoy your visit to Canyon Falls, and decide to stick around to see what happens next. Contents CONTENT WARNING Prologue 1. Theona LaReaux 2. Pax 3. Thea 4. Holden Sullivan 5. Thea 6. Thea 7. Pax 8. Finley Jefferson Rhodes, III 9. Thea 10. Pax 11. Deacon Wolfe 12. Pax 13. Thea 14. Holden 15. Thea 16. Pax 17. Holden 18. Finn 19. Deacon 20. Thea 21. Thea 22. Holden 23. Thea 24. Finn 25. Pax 26. Thea 27. Thea 28. Thea 29. Holden 30. Finn 31. Thea 32. Pax 33. Thea 34. Pax 35. Thea 36. Finn 37. Pax 38. Finn 39. Thea 40. Deacon 41. Thea 42. Thea 43. Holden 44. Thea 45. Holden 46. Deacon 47. Finn 48. Thea 49. Thea 50. Thea 51. Thea 52. Holden 53. Thea 54. Deacon 55. Thea 56. Holden 57. Thea 58. Pax 59. Thea 60. Thea 61. Thea 62. Pax 63. Thea 64. Holden 65. Thea 66. Pax 67. Thea 68. Thea Epilogue Afterword About the Author CONTENT WARNING The following subject matter may be discussed in passing and/ or be described in detail on page: Why Choose Graphic Sexual Descriptions Child Abandonment Talk of Loss of Child Student/ Teacher Relationship Bullying (By Harem Members and Others) Knife Play Blood Play Manipulation Non-Con Dub-Con Somnophilia Breath Play Primal Violence Graphic Assault (Physical and Sexual) Rape/ Attempted Rape Your safety and well being is important to me. Please carefully consider these warnings before reading this book. Bow down and plead Before those who lead Leave your will and moral compass at the door Bleed and cower. Our rival devoured. The Triumvirate. Legacy Born. Prologue Paxton Cox “What do you think?” I’m in the leadership room of my frat house with Garret Marques the fraternity recruitment coordinator. We both have stacks of papers in front of us with the names of potential candidates for joining Rho Beta Psi, our fraternity. It’s a solid selection pool, but none of the names stand out as being exceptional. We also have copies of the membership rosters and prospective candidates for all the other fraternities on campus. Without question, Rho Beta Psi is the best fraternity, yet our enrollment numbers have been down over the last two years, and it’s not because we aren’t accepting new members. The Student Engagement Center sent out a campus wide survey, asking students how they view school life and extra-curricular activities. The results were less than flattering. Rho Beta Psi throws the best parties, we have the best booze, and the sexiest women shaking their asses; our philanthropic endeavors are widely reported, and our charitable donations unmatched. Our alumni are judges, professional athletes, and world leaders, yet, the results showed less than ten percent of the guys who took part in the survey want to join our fraternity. A follow up question asked why, and those answers pretty much said the same thing. Why bother pledging when they know they’ll get rejected, because we’re too exclusive. Too elite. I think it’s a bunch of bullshit. Trash responses from people bitching because they know they wouldn’t make the cut or we’ve already rejected them during pledge season. How can you be too elite? The more exclusive you are, the more prestige you get, the more power you accumulate. We’d lose credibility if we accepted everyone who pledges. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t be wasting my time with this batch of names or care that our numbers are down. We should only want people joining who genuinely want to be here. But the organization behind Rho Beta