Lily hid behind a large decorative column, peeking around the edge carefully.
She watched Jacob stop exactly where she'd been standing just moments before.
Her heart pounded so violently she could hear it in her ears.
[He's following me... He's actually HUNTING me through a shopping mall like I'm prey!]
She pressed herself against the column, trying to slow her breathing.
Then realization struck.
[Wait. How does he know where I am so precisely?]
She checked her clothes. Her bags. Then—
Her phone.
Her eyes went wide.
[…Oh my god.]
[He installed a tracker in my phone?!]
[THAT DESPICABLE, CONTROLLING, PRIVACY-INVADING—!]
Without hesitation, Lily threw the phone onto the ground with force.
The screen cracked slightly.
Then she ran again, abandoning it completely.
[Good luck tracking me NOW, you demon!]
The women's restroom appeared ahead like a sanctuary.
She rushed toward it.
[Even demons can't enter the women's restroom! It's sacred ground! I'm safe there!]
