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I catch her wrist and pull her hand down.
“It’s you. Cyrus knew where your mom lives, right? That means he’s been tracking you.”
“Then how did he find us here? I left all my personal belongings at the resort.”
“Not all of them.”
I run back out to the Explorer to retrieve Lex’s keyring from the center console. After getting Lex contained Friday night, I picked it up off the asphalt and chucked it in here.
Heading back inside, I meet her at the counter and pull her key fob apart. The only thing in it is a battery.
She shakes her head. “It has to be you. You’re the one he has access to. At The Playground, he could’ve put a tracker on any of your belongings. Your car, your…”
The only items I have on me from my real life, and not James Jones’s, is my laptop and…
We look at each other, both of us saying, “Phone,” at the same time.
“Whose idea was it for you to go to The Playground?” I ask despite already knowing the answer.
“His.”
“In Lost and Found specifically?” Because phones aren’t allowed in the Lost and Found rooms, everyone has to leave them with the key girl, no exceptions.
“Yes.”
“That’s where he did it.” But I wonder…
I get my phone from the bedroom and bring it back out. As soon as I pry the case off, a thin, quarter-sized tracking device falls out. Fucker.
“Your phone has a case on it, too?”
“Yes.”
“He’s been tracking both of us.” While he’s only had access to Lex’s whereabouts the last three weeks, I don’t know how long he’s been tracking me. Sometime after I upgraded my phone, which still doesn’t narrow it down really, considering I’ve spent a lot of time in Lost and Found.
Lex reaches for the tracker, but I shoot my hand out, blocking her.
“Hold on. Let’s think this through first.”
“Reece, he’s fucking tracking us.”
“That might work in our favor.”
She crosses her arms. “Explain.”
“If you go back to working for Cyrus, what are you going to do about Kordin?”
“I don’t know. Kill him?”
I start to smile before remembering Lex doesn’t joke. I’ve wanted to kill Kordin since I laid eyes on him, but that won’t actually solve anything…in this instance.
“Killing him doesn’t get rid of the evidence showing you’re committing fraud.”
“Well, I can’t turn him in. It’d just be my word against his with no evidence to back it up. I’d need an actual witness to Kordin incriminating me for anyone to believe I didn’t do it.”
An accomplice. That would make things easier. But since we don’t know if Kordin’s ever used one, we have to assume he didn’t.
“We don’t have time to explore every option. We only really have one.”
