CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
As Riley started to follow Chief O’Neill out of the bathroom, she noticed that Jared was leaning against a wall, looking pale. His mouth was hanging open.
He obviously had never seen a corpse in this condition before. At least the bloating and putrefaction must be new to him, and this might be the first time he’d encountered the smell.
Well, Riley knew that it could get a lot worse than this. She felt in no mood to coddle the young cop.
“Are you coming with us, or what?” she asked him.
Jared snapped out of his shock and followed Riley and O’Neill.
The three of them got into the elevator and went down to the second floor. O’Neill led them into a large recreation room with a pool table, a ping-pong table, and some other games.
A young blonde woman was sitting on a cou
