CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Riley felt weak all over as she climbed into the SUV. She sat down in the back and shivered, feeling cold all over from sheer shock.
She knew she was coming down from a terrible flood of adrenaline.
But what had just happened?
Little by little, the truth began to dawn on her.
In the violence of the moment, she had flashed back to the single most vicious act she had ever committed.
It was when she had killed Peterson, a psychopath who had captured and tortured her, causing her own severe bouts with PTSD. He had kidnapped her daughter, and then she had finally caught up with him and killed him.
She had savagely smashed his head with a rock, time and time again.
And she had enjoyed doing it.
When she’d crouched over Carson’s prone body just now, she’d been reliving th
