Maya’s phone buzzed for the sixth time that hour.
But Maya couldn’t shake the feeling that it wasn’t an error. The first five times the number appeared, she’d blocked it without thought. But the sixth time, something shifted—a faint, high-pitched tone played through the earpiece right before the call dropped. A tone that sounded almost like a human breath.
One ring. Then silence.
That night, she didn’t sleep. Instead, she sat cross-legged on her bed and dialed the number manually—not from her blocked list, but from the raw call log she pulled via a developer tool.