CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
In pursuit of the fleeing suspect, Riley and Jenn rounded the back of the next trailer. They pulled up in surprise at what they encountered there.
The two agents almost ran into the backs of a circle of people. The neighbors who had confronted them earlier had surrounded Trip, but they didn’t seem to be protecting him.
Riley pushed her way between two women in the circle. At that moment, she saw the biggest of the men body-slam Trip. Then the same man stooped over the wailing figure on the ground, raised his fist, and punched him in the head.
The onlookers, both women and men, all cheered loudly.
The situation became brutally clear to Riley. The neighbors had turned vigilante.
Trip’s very life was now in danger.
“We’ve got to stop this,” Riley said to Jenn, who had
