“Callie,” her mom said once the hug had ended. “The paramedics need to look you over.”
She nodded and then looked at Emma. “Would you come with me?”
Emma smiled. “I told you I wouldn’t leave until you were ready for me to go. I keep my word.”
The rest of the morning the school was a circus. There were police, fire trucks, paramedics, news crews, even a helicopter flying overhead. There were also other parents that came, their eyes full of hope that maybe their child had been found. But Emma knew from Jaser that the kids that weren’t found had been sold. Would they ever be found? Was there any way to stop men like Flannigan from exploiting children? She didn’t know. But she vowed that one day, when she was grown up, she would do everything she could to help stop children from being taken
