sebastien jean lebeau, a name his mother uttered for the first time when she was a sixteen year old in new orleans, louisiana. she’d met a cajun thief who stole more than money, taking the girl’s heart with him as well. he made promises of a life they could have lived together, until she got pregnant. he made the promise to stay, telling her everything she wanted to hear and then taking it away from her the night that their son was born. if you asked her, she truly did love that baby boy at first, but the disappearance of his father made her bitter and hard. they’d been left with enough money for her to survive on her own, but being a single mother in the city of new orleans was never easy, nor was it kind. her negative outlook on the situation didn’t help matters either, pushing sebastien away from her every chance that she got.

she cycled through boyfriends like a junkie cycled through drugs and then some. as soon as seb was able to be left alone, she was leaving him alone to go out and sell her body and do drugs. seb had to learn to fend for himself with the help of his voodoo priest neighbor. what he came to learn was that he was good at stealing and coaxing people to do what he wanted. he would use mardi gras as a platform to take from drunk frat boys and tourists who just wanted to have a little bit of fun. for a little kid, he was very manipulative. then he picked the wrong pocket and the rest is history. luca, the head of a rag tag group of new orleans thieves, took seb under his wing and taught him everything that he needed to know to become a master thief.

seb learned to live on his own, eventually picking up and moving out of new orleans when he turned eighteen. he wanted to see the world, so he started to hustle his way up and down the coast. he was damn good at playing cards, but he was even better at hustling people. he was young, he was cocky, and he was good at what he did. he slipped back in and out of louisiana, dealing with his mother and with other thieves. seb was a lone wolf, until he met anna durand. after that, he took her under his wing and taught her everything she needed to know to be a successful thief.

they parted ways. seb carried on for a couple of years, until an accident in budapest that changed the way he looked at his thieving career. with enough money to last him a long time, he decided to settle in boston where a certain someone happened to be as well. he set up shop with a gentlemen's club that was modeled after the strip clubs of louisiana. he spent some time working at the club and doing odd jobs here and there, but settling down wasn't really his thing. he tried, he wanted to be the man that anna wanted him to be... but his instincts called to him and he found himself taking off again

throughout the years, his relationship with anna became the defining point of his life. there was no way he could ever be without her and once he came to terms with that, he decided that it was time to at least attempt to settle down. after she got pregnant and his little brother came into the picture, sebastien knew he was going to have to do what his father couldn't do, settle down and be a real man. he put his brother in a private school in new orleans and he stepped back from the theiving game and became more of a figurehead. his focus turned to club ownership over everything else. he wanted to be a better man for what was going to be the future that he wanted for the rest of his life.

things never worked out the way he wanted it to, not when things from his past would always be there to rear its ugly head. after hearing through the grapevine that there would be an attempt on him and that his family would be in danger, he made the tough decision. he left monte in the care of anna's father, asking him to please keep the boy out of trouble and left both of them with a constant guard. though it was going to be a tough thing for him to do, he knew that it had to be done. it just had to be. after faking his death to protect the people he cared about the most, he changed his name and moved to quebec, because it was the one place that he knew he would be able to go without being found. he changed his name to remy and went back to his roots, living off the grid.

and that was the last time anyone had heard from him, until now...