9 Nick
I breathe a huge sigh of relief once they’ve gone back to the station to circulate the photo of Ellie on their system. On more than one occasion while McKenna and Brennan were here I felt like a suspect in my own home, as if what had already happened that morning wasn’t bad enough.
I keep running through that moment in my head. All sense of time has been warped by the adrenaline and sheer panic, but I can only have been in the house a minute at the most. She can’t have got to the end of the road on her own in that time, which means someone must have taken her. It’s the only logical explanation.
In that time, the person who took her must have been nearby. I rack my brains, trying to think what I saw when I put Ellie in the car. Was anyone walking past? Were there any cars parked u
