24With tons of emotions threatening to choke him, Lake decided to pretend that the letter wasn't about him. Maybe in doing that he could get through the rest of his father’s revelations without screaming.
"This is difficult for me to confess, but it must be done. Despite what we led you to believe, you were not born to your mother and I. You were brought to us as an infant—a living experiment of our government—and placed into our care. Everything about your upbringing was carefully orchestrated for one specific purpose. Like the ancient warriors who carried them all those millennia ago, we were preparing you to one day become a host to a sentient blade."
Lake let the letter fall to the desk and rose to walk. His parents weren't his real parents. His life wasn't his real life. Nothing—abs
