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I can only hope that the person I turned out to be was the result of outside influences, and not because that’s who I’ll always be A vindictive, cheating shell of a person

I open the backpack and begin readingabout files that Silas stole froht implicate my father Why would Silas steal those frouilty, which I believe he is, ould Silas want to hide that?

"Why do you think you stole those files fros "I don’t know The only thing I can come up with is that maybe I hid them because I felt bad for you Maybe I didn’t want your father to go to prison for longer than he already was, because it would have broken your heart"

That sounds like so Silas would do

"Are they still in your room?" I ask him

Silas nods "I think so I’m pretty sure I read soet to your house tonight, I think you should give them to your father"

Silas glances at me across the seats "Are you sure about that?"

I nod "He’s ruined a lot of lives, Silas He deserves to pay for that"

"Charlie didn’t know you had these?"

I’ outside Silas’s father’s study When alked in the door and he saith Silas, I thought he was going to hit hiive hiot the files and brought them back down to his father

I can’t hear their entire conversation Silas is explaining to hi His father is quiet And then…

"Charlie? Can you come in here, please?"

His father scares me Not in the way , but he doesn’t seem evil Not like Brett Wynwood

I walk into his office and he motions for th of his desk a few ti directly at y"

I’m sure he can see the shock in my expression "You do?"

He nods "I’ve been harsh on you What your father did toto do with you Yet I bla, because I kne fiercely you stood by hi if I said I wasn’t disappointed in you, Silas Interfering with a federal investigation…"

"I was sixteen, Dad I didn’t knohat I was doing But I do now, and Charlie and I both want to ht"

Clark Nash nods and then walks around his desk to take a seat "So does this lance at Silas and then back at his father "Yes, sir"