Alina zoomed into the screenshot until it fell apart into squares, and a single word in the corner gave Penelope away.
It was so small she almost missed it. She'd stared at the fake texts, at the cheap little fire emoji and the *Love you. A.*, for so long that the words had stopped meaning anything and become shapes. She'd checked the fonts. The spacing. The bubble colors. All perfect. Whoever had made them knew what they were doing.
And then, out of pure stubborn habit, she zoomed in on the status bar at the very top of the screen. The tiny strip where the battery icon lived, and the signal bars, and the name of the carrier.
It didn't say the name of any carrier in the city.
It said *RAIN 5G.*
Alina sat back in her chair.
*What?* Daxy said. *What is it? Why did your heart just do th
