Talia’s words hit me like a slap that finally woke me up. I replayed the kidnapping in my head from start to finish, and the more I thought about it, the more wrong it felt.

The people who took us knocked us out, dumped us in that old neighborhood scheduled for demolition—and then didn’t hurt us.

They were after money. But what about the person who hired them?

Risking that much… just to teach us a lesson?

It didn’t add ...