[That's why Cassel is telling her any of this at all. In any other situation, at Wallingford or back home in general, he'd clam up and deflect. They're spending almost all their time together here and getting locked in at night, and if he's going to be any better than he ever was, he at least has to try, even if it makes him feel raw and exposed.]

I've screwed up a lot. With Lila, but with everyone else, too. My dad wasn't teaching me to pick locks for fun, he was doing it so I could help him and my mom. I've been stealing things and conning people since I was a kid.

[God, he hates saying this. He doesn't even realize how much his posture tenses up as he talks. It's breaking that ironclad oath his mother always taught him, but then, he did that when he joined the feds. What's one more girl in a place his family will never even hear of?]