Charlie

He's been Lucio's best friend for eighteen years. He's been lying to him for just as long.Charlie watched Lucio build his empire. Watched him harden. Watched him close himself off from everything soft and warm and worth having. He told himself it was fine — that the secret he carried was for Lucio's protection. That some truths do more damage than the lies that replace them.He almost believed it. Until she arrived, and the world he built so carefully began to crack.Because Charlie knows what Cherry doesn't. And the moment Lucio finds out, it will burn everything to the ground.Now Lucio is obsessed, Reign is circling, and Charlie is running out of room to keep the past exactly where he buried it. And somewhere beneath all of it, Josephine is still there — copper-haired, warm-eyed, lodged in his head and impossible to forget.Some men carry their sins quietly.Charlie has carried his for eighteen years.He's not sure how much longer he can hold on.Dark and dangerously addictive — buried obsession, dangerous loyalty, and a secret sharp enough to destroy them all. Book Three of the Claimed & Corrupted series.18+