CHAPTER NINE
Riley stopped herself in mid-thought.
What do you mean? she asked herself. What do you think you’re doing?
And yet she couldn’t drive the idea out of her mind—that she could somehow be getting a glimpse of the killer’s actual sensations.
She stepped back from the doorway and leaned against the building’s outside wall, taking deep breaths and trying to force herself to think rationally.
Surely, she told herself, you don’t believe that you can find out what happened to Rhea by paying attention to …
… to what?
But even as she stood there arguing with herself, she knew that she was sensing something real. She was getting some insight into what had happened here.
And she had to learn whatever she could.
Just as she felt sure he must have done, she stepped backward until sh
