Chapter 248

#115

They bring the text straight to David, who reads it once, his face going flat and unreadable in the way Elias has learned means he’s already three moves ahead of everyone else in the room.

“Marcus,” David says. “Trace it.”

It takes Marcus the better part of an hour, hunched over three monitors with a focus that doesn’t break for anything, before he finally leans back and delivers the answer.

​“Got it,” Marcus says. “The signal originated from a fixed transceiver located at Warehouse 14 along the primary shipping docks. What’s more, the signal is still active. The device that sent that text is sitting inside that structure right now.”

“So he’s careless,” Lucia says.

“Or he wants us to think that,” Elias responds. “A man who’s evaded every trace we’ve run for weeks