“I know it feels like he can.

That feeling is the thing he built on purpose.

But he can’t — and I’m going to show you exactly why.” She looked at me for a long moment, this young woman who had been taught for a year and a half that people like Dalton always won and people like her always lost.

Then she said, “There’s more.” And she reached for her phone.

Chapter 6 — The System

She opened a folder on her phone that she had kept hidden, and I understood within a minute that Dalton had made a mistake far larger than the one he thought he had made.