The blue tooth symbol on the JVC KW-V240BT blinked. Not the steady, confident pulse it usually had when connected to Marcus’s phone, but a frantic, arrhythmic flicker. It was the digital equivalent of a dying heartbeat.
The text kept scrolling, faster now.
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“You’re getting slow, old friend,” he muttered, resting his coffee on the dashboard of his 2012 Subaru Outback. The stereo was the first thing he’d upgraded when he bought the car used. The JVC unit had been mid-range then, a rebellious splash of color and touchscreen in a sea of beige plastic and cassette decks. It had seen him through cross-country road trips, breakups, and the daily purgatory of rush hour. The blue tooth symbol on the JVC KW-V240BT blinked