CHAPTER ELEVEN
As Riley approached the police station in her rented car, she wondered …
Did I just make a serious mistake?
Shouldn’t she have just told Officer Jared Ruhl to stay off the case and to keep quiet about it? Instead, here she was about to partner up with an unfamiliar young cop.
In fact, she worried, how would she even recognize him among the various people she could see going in and out of the brick building?
But that didn’t turn out to be a problem. There he was—a slight, scrawny-looking guy in a police uniform, his hands in his pockets, obviously on the watch for her car.
Riley didn’t like the looks of him. It wasn’t so much his sharply sloping caveman-like brow or his underdeveloped chin. It didn’t matter to her whether he was pleasant to look at. But there was someth
