“Right here, right now, we’re no one. There’s no history. No last names. You’re just Jude. I’m just Phi. We can create something that’s ours.” Phi says it so easily, like it’s the simplest thing in the world—to just forget everything, to strip away all the pain, all the scars, and just be…us. But it’s not that simple. It can’t be, not for us. “Just Geeks and the Loner, huh?” I grunt, biting the inside of my cheek to keep from grinning at her tired eyes. “Yeah.” Phi gives a little nod. “Our universe, Loner.” “Our universe, Geeks.”
