Chapter 247

#114

“Someone cloned your device’s exact digital signature,” Marcus says, laying a laptop open on the kitchen counter, the screen filled with lines of code that mean nothing to me at all. “They built a passive secondary pathway through your service provider. It means every single piece of data that hits your antenna routes to a secondary server before it even finishes loading on your screen.”

​I fold my arms over my chest, shifting my weight from one foot to the other. The room feels entirely too tight despite its high ceilings. “Explain that in plain English. What do you mean by a mirror?”

“Basically, it’s not a person. It’s a mirror,” he tells me. “Someone’s established a duplicate connection to your phone. Every text you send, every call, every location ping. All of it’s been mirrored to a second device in real time.”

I stare at