In her holding unit, Kate crawled under the sheets before deleting the messages of the day out of habit. She then extracted the SIM card and hid it in her bra. The practice tonight was horrible for her. She just received news from the person she had been conversing with, and it was worrying her.

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On another end, Hailey just got Jade to hack into Kate’s phone before the signal was lost. Hailey blinked and asked in frustration, “Really? Now?”

“What a time to be taking out the SIM card,” Jade replied.

“Well, she’s not supposed to have a SIM card to begin with,” Hailey noted, then added, “We...