Goldfish Protocol
I never meant to become a spy. It just happened that way—one minute I'm eating lunch alone in the cafeteria, next minute I'm wedged behind the gymnasium dumpster, listening through...
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I never meant to become a spy. It just happened that way—one minute I'm eating lunch alone in the cafeteria, next minute I'm wedged behind the gymnasium dumpster, listening through...
Leo swallowed his vitamin C with a grimace—the chalky orange kind his mom swore would keep him from getting mono, as if that was his biggest problem. His biggest problem was actual...
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