Charlie's heart broke as he finished reading the letter.

At that very moment, he was overwhelmed with regret. Why did he hide his true heritage from Claire from the start and cover for the first lie with countless more?

The entire web of lies was no different from a programmer finding a terrible glitch in his program, but instead of fixing the bug itself, he simply tried to circumvent the glitch by adding layers of coding over more coding just to keep the program alive, even if the program ba