Santiago and Savannah arrived at the parking lot shortly after Sawyer and Lucille and I tried not to think about how fast they had to be driving to make the twenty-five-minute drive in less than ten. I was profoundly grateful to see them and to see Kyle locked up in the back of Savannah’s patrol car.
She began taking witness statements by talking with Dad, and Santiago let me sit on the bumper of his car and listen to Dad’s rendition of events.
He said the first thing that tipped him off that something was wrong was that I hadn’t immediately shouted or waved when I saw him. But then he really grew worried when he realized I had seen Sawyer but had gone the other way. He didn’t know who the man was that I was walking with, and that made him concerned, too.
“But when I saw Paisley signing
