Page 51 of Deadly Scandals

“Yeah, what did he say?”

Grant exhaled. “The kids were doing the Jedi training academy. Some guy who worked there asked Mitch to buy a picture package. All the kids in the academy were together. Mitch and the other parents were led to the audience, and when the kids came out, Sienna wasn’t with them. Sam told Mitch that she went with a Jedi. They’ve supposedly closed down the entire park, but there is no sign of Sienna.”

Grant’s voice was choked up, and he even wiped his face. Seeing a strong Navy SEAL shed tears broke me. I tried to hold it in, be calm and professional, but my own tears flowed.

This was so very, very bad.

“Oh my God. That’s awful. My sister was kidnapped when I was a little girl, but I can’t even imagine losing my child.”

The second those words left my lips, I regretted them. Because both Mia and Grant knew what it was like to not know where their child was.

“It’s the worst pain imaginable,” Mia said softly.

And at that moment, I reached over the console and took Mia’s hand. Sympathy flooded my body. I had questioned so many things about Mia’s behavior, but I had missed a whole facet of the investigation.

I had never understood how hard it must’ve been for Mia.

“Mitch called me after he had texted you. He’s losing it. I’ve never heard him like this. Those kids are his world. If he can’t find her, this will break him.”

“Well, we will find her. There are four of us—two Navy SEALs and two NCIS agents. And the cops and the FBI, I assume. If Disney shut down the park, she has to be there. She just has to.”

But deep in my heart, I knew that wasn’t true. My sister had been taken on a secure Naval Base. And she had never been found.

But Julián had been discovered. By the very people in this truck.

We were all brought together for a reason. And I couldn’t shake the thought that every moment in my life, every tear shed over Brielle, every ounce of my NCIS training, had prepared me to find Mitch’s little girl.