Waiting (The Making of Riley Paige—Book 2) by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

Riley’s eyes snapped open at the sound of her cell phone buzzing on the nightstand.

She heard Ryan let out a sleepy growl of annoyance as she reached for the phone. When she saw that the call was from Agent Crivaro, she leapt out of bed and rushed out of the bedroom to keep from waking Ryan.

“Are you awake?” Crivaro asked when she took the call.

“Yeah,” Riley said.

And she wasn’t lying. She’d been sleeping deeply just a moment ago, but now she felt jolted as fully awake as if she’d already had a cup of coffee.

“I need you here at the Hoover Building ASAP,” Crivaro said.

“What’s going on?” Riley asked breathlessly.

“Gregory Wertz isn’t the killer. We checked and double-checked his alibies yesterday. He’s in the clear for both murders. So today we’ve got to start all over at square one. The worst part is, the media found out that we got the wrong guy, and they’re going crazy today. So the pressure’s on. I need all hands on deck. How soon can you get here?”

“Twenty or thirty minutes,” Riley said. “Or a little more. I have to catch the metro.”

“Get going right now,” Crivaro said. He told her the room where she should meet him when she got to the building, then abruptly ended the call.

Riley realized she was hyperventilating as she stared at the phone.

She flashed back again to what she’d told Crivaro two nights ago …

“Wertz isn’t the killer. I’m sure of it now.”

Now Riley wondered …

Is that why he’s bringing me back?

Because my instincts turned out to be right?

Maybe.

Or maybe the only thing that mattered to him right now was, as he’d just put it …

“I need all hands on deck.”

She had no idea, but she quickly decided that it didn’t make any difference. She was back on the case again, and she needed to get to the Hoover Building right now. She gathered up some clothes and got dressed and ready as quietly as she could while Ryan kept on snoring.

She didn’t have time for her usual cereal and coffee, so she grabbed an energy bar out of a kitchen cabinet. Then she dashed off a hasty note to Ryan explaining that she’d had to rush off to a meeting. She left it on the kitchen table and hurried on out toward the metro stop.

As she did every morning, Riley bought a newspaper at a vending box on the way to the stop. She looked at the front page as she sat down to wait for her train.

She could see at a glance that Crivaro was right—the media was all over the case. The headline blared …

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