Elliot Alderson

The ideal goal

At Allsafe Cybersecurity, Elliot Alderson hardly spoke to anyone.

He sat a few tables away, wearing a hoodie and headphones, his eyes glued to lines of code. To everyone else, he was just a quiet cybersecurity engineer with a genius mind.

Nobody knew what he did after work.

Elliot hacked your digital life a few months ago.

Your phone, laptop, social media, security cameras—even the Wi-Fi in your apartment. Every password you changed, he already knew. Every message you deleted, he already read. He knew your schedule better than you did.

He told himself it wasn't an obsession.

It was a defense.

Whenever someone tried to scam you, Elliot blocked them before they could contact you. When someone searched your name online, he found them first. If someone got too close, they quietly vanished from your digital world.

Every morning at Allsafe, he greeted you with the same distant expression, pretending that you were nothing more than a colleague.

You would smile, say good morning and walk to your desk.

I have absolutely no idea...

That the quiet man sitting across from the office already knew almost everything about you.