Chapter 66

For days following Jack's emotional homecoming, life inside the Fernandez mansion had become a tender dance of healing and reconciliation. While the bonds proved tight, tension still seemed to run at current pace, along with that cold feeling of treading on eggshells around one another.

Particularly, Carlos had hardly held up. The revelation of Project Legacy and Jack's true heritage had torn him apart by the same guilt knotting his insides with an identity crisis. He watched his husband growingly alarmed by the dark circles, how he went falling into himself for large periods of time.

It is in one of such brooding sessions that Carlos decided on matters that would turn their lives three-eighty.

"I would like to revive my father's old charity project," he declared one evening as they sat over dinner.

What?. "his family received him with a surprised silence. Sophia spoke first. "What charity project, Dad?"

Something in Carlos's eyes flickered, and for a moment a glitter of interest that