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My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

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“That helps,” he said.

I looked at him. “Do I need to move?”

He held my eyes a second too long.

“We’re evaluating that now.”

I drove home with every muscle in me tight as cable. My apartment building looked the same as always. Red brick. Narrow balconies. Somebody’s wind chime clicking a few floors up. But when I unlocked my door, it no longer felt like continue reading …

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