CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Riley fought down her panic. She definitely didn’t want to talk to this caller while she was in the elevator with Bill and Lucy. Finally, the sound stopped as her outgoing message kicked in. Riley hoped that Hatcher would either leave a message or give up. But after a brief silence, the annoying signal started up again.
She wondered why Hatcher was so anxious to talk to her.
What would happen if she simply turned her phone off?
She didn’t want to find out.
“Don’t you want to get that?” Bill asked as the elevator door opened on the ground floor.
“I’d better,” Riley said, walking away from Bill and Lucy to talk alone.
When she took the call, Hatcher sounded angrier than she’d ever heard him.
“You broke our deal,” he said.
Riley felt her panic rising.
“What do you
