Chapter Forty One
Bill and Riley were finishing up their debriefing with Brent Meredith in his office at Quantico. Bill’s head was still bandaged, and he’d suffered a slight concussion, but Riley could tell that he was doing fine now. All in all, she felt satisfied with the wrap-up of the case in Phoenix.
“Good job, you two,” Meredith said. Then, with a sort of half-smile to Riley, he added, “Even Agent Morley seemed to think so.”
Riley smiled back rather weakly. Yes, Morley had thanked her and Bill on the tarmac back in Phoenix before their flight back here. But there hadn’t been a lot of warmth in his thanks. He had been especially chilly toward Riley. She hadn’t found that surprising. And she couldn’t quite blame him.
Meredith swiveled back and forth in his office chair. Riley recog
