They were in the car on the way back to the hotel when Jenna's phone rang.
She looked at the screen and answered it immediately and Francis watched her face from the passenger seat and knew within the first ten seconds that something was wrong. Not the hearing, that was done, the injunction was vacated and the federal team was moving. Something else. Something new.
She listened for ninety seconds without speaking and then said thank you in a voice that meant the opposite and ended the call and sat with the phone in her lap and looked at the road ahead.
"Tell me," Francis said.
Jenna took a breath. "The facility isn't releasing the children."
Francis looked at her.
"The federal team arrived eighteen minutes ago. They presented the vacated injunction and the access warrant. The facilit
