Suddenly, Elias’s phone buzzed. A notification from his banking app: Deposit received: $1,270.00. Then, a text from an unknown number: Do you remember the blue bike?
He grabbed a heavy paperweight and slammed it into the monitor. The glass shattered, sparks showering his desk. The room went pitch black. Silence rushed back in, heavy and suffocating. Download DATA File v1.27
He froze. He’d had a blue bike when he was six. It had been stolen outside a grocery store, a memory he hadn’t thought of in twenty years. Suddenly, Elias’s phone buzzed