“Sure.”
I grab my wallet and keys and head out the door. Onceoutside, I find Peter waiting next to my car in the parking lot. How did he find us?
“What do you want?” I ask.
“I’m living here with one of the men who worked for Mr. Hawthorne.”
He’s livestreaming?
“Hunter! No mushrooms!” Savvy yells.
I turn to find her standing in the open door in full view of the podcaster’s phone. I whack it out of his hand, and it falls to the ground.
“Get back inside,” I say to Savvy.
“Hey! You broke my phone!” Peter says.
“You have no right to be filming me. Who was watching that?”
He grins as he pockets his phone. “About ten thousand of my followers just saw you break my phone. I’ll send you the bill for the new one.”
He turns on his heel, but I grab his jacket before he can get away.
“How did you find us?”
He shrugs.
“Dammit, that woman is in serious danger. And you just led a killer to her with that video. Tell me how you found us!” I’m yelling, but I don’t care.
Peter winces. “I put an AirTag on your car.”
“Show me.” I let him go.
He bends down and pulls it from the bumper.
If I had an iPhone, it would have alerted me. But I don’t. I’ll have to talk to Reed about that later.
I take the tag from Peter. “Go away.”
He runs to his car. Once he leaves, I glance around and spot a dumpster. I toss the AirTag inside.
Then I race back to our room and call Piper.
“Piper, Peter from the podcast claimed he live-streamed a video of me. It shows where Savvy and I are hiding.”
“Oh no, let me check his socials.”
The sound of her clicking on her keyboard comes through the phone. “It says his live just ended. I’ll keep an eye on it and see if he posts the video to his site,” Piper says.
“Thank you. He said he had ten thousand people watching.”
Piper sighs. “That sounds about right. I listened to his last podcast series, and he supplements it with live streams from his social media. He likes to catch people off guard.”
“Sounds dangerous for him,” I say.
She laughs. “Actually, he did get punched by one guy about six months ago. He posted that video.”
Of course he did. This guy has no interest in getting to the actual truth. He wants what will get him the most views. Because there is no way he truly could believe Stacy is innocent. The evidence was overwhelming.
