Where Fireflies Dwell

21. The Glitch

H ow do you tell someone the truth without hurting their feelings? Without scaring them away? Wooju thought about it a thousand times—in eighty-seven alternate timelines.

And in every timeline, he always ended up alone.

Time and time again, Yunho wound up either dying in his arms or rotting in jail. Then, all of a sudden, a glitch in time occurred, propelling them both into what appeared to be the eighty-eighth timeline, and perhaps the last one.