I could barely breathe as I typed my next reply: “Who did you see standing on the trail?”

The three typing dots appeared on the screen, vanished for a few seconds, then came back.

Finally, Austin’s text came through.

“I saw Brandon.”

I stared at the screen in total disbelief, my jaw dropping.

Paige gasped softly beside me.

“What?”

I handed her the phone with a shaking hand so she could read the next message, which arrived a second later.