Avery immediately held his hands up and shook his head quickly. "No. No. I didn't follow anybody, I swear it," he said. The girl, Ruth? Her accusation of pedo suddenly hung threateningly near. "I was investigating. I'm a journalist. I couldn't get anything so I went to sit down and the kid just came up to me and started talking. I didn't know who he was. Honest to God."
The audio file of their conversation was saved on the computer, and Avery was suddenly wondering just what Archer had looked at while he was out. Archer had had the opportunity to poke at anything, and Avery mentally cursed himself for leaving his laptop open instead of closed and password protected. But he hardly knew this was going to happen, did he??