CHAPTER TEN
Feeling groggy and disoriented, Riley struggled to make sense of the early-morning phone call.
“How did you get this number?” she demanded.
“Oh,” the man said, sounding a little surprised himself. “I guess I didn’t say, did I? Dr. Amy Rhind told me how to get in touch with you. In fact, she’s rather expecting you and your colleagues to come over to Wilburton House right now. I’m here. We can talk more then.”
Without another word, the man ended the call.
She was about to phone Dr. Rhind to say that the agents had other plans for the morning and couldn’t meet with whoever this Bayle person was.
But Riley realized she was intrigued as well as annoyed.
The man had said “I’m here” as though that should be good news.
She looked at her watch and saw that she and her colleagues
