Then his phone buzzed one more time. Not a text. A push notification from an app he'd never downloaded, with an icon he'd never seen.
Not 2319. Twenty-three nineteen.
He laughed. A raw, desperate sound. It was absurd. It was a prank. It was— ewallet code
His phone buzzed. A text from an unknown number. Then his phone buzzed one more time
He didn't move.
The code was never the numbers.
But he heard breathing. Slow. Patient. On the other side of the wood. ewallet code