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“I’ll walk,” she said.

The rain turned heavier. The wipers clicked like a metronome.

“You’re not Leo,” she whispered.

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$48. $52. $67.

The car turned onto a road that wasn’t on her map. The streetlights stopped. Her phone signal dropped to one bar.

“Hey,” she said, voice sharp. “This isn’t the way to—“ “I’ll walk,” she said

Leo’s jaw tightened. “Old defense contractor. Went under five years ago. I handle legacy data now—hard drives, server ghosts, stuff people thought they deleted.”

She had opened it. A weird attachment in a spam email. She’d clicked it out of boredom during a night shift, watched a black terminal window flash for half a second, then nothing. She’d forgotten it until now.

Exit status: free.

“Better than saying yes to you.”

She unbuckled her seatbelt.