“From an early age, you’ve learned never to trust anyone but yourself. You let almost no one help you, but the ones you do allow into your life have special significance to you: you love them, even when sometimes you wish that you didn’t. Because when you love someone, Kricket, it means you’re completely loyal to that person, you’ll sacrifice anything for him—even your life. How am I doing so far?” I shrug, noncommittal. “So you fancy yourself a code hacker?” “On occasion,” he replies. “I used to have a simpler code.” “Let me guess: I’m an island.” “Something like that. It wasn’t working out
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