Layla?
The port opened.
His heart stopped.
His sister was online.
He typed, hands shaking.
Where are you? Are you safe?
The authorities called it “self-imposed digital withdrawal.” Rayan knew better. Layla was a cybersecurity journalist. She’d been investigating a shadowy data broker called The Labyrinth Consortium . And the last message she ever sent him, three weeks ago, contained only five words: Fastray Vpn danlwd mstqym