“Hey, are you going to be all right on this one?

“I know it hits close to home,” Miguel sympathized.

“When have you ever known me not to be all right?” Madeline said. No matter how challenging things got, she never let anything personal keep her from doing her job.

“What we do is tough. It’s natural if a case gets to us sometimes.”

“I should be asking how you’re doing after everything that’s happened recently.”

“I’m guessing your deflection means I struck a nerve.”

More like an old wound that healed a little each time she rescued a child.

“You know, you never answered my question.”

“I’m fine.” She’d joined the FBI to become a kidnapping expert. Sure, whenever they got a case like this, it burned Madeline’s gut that another innocent child had been snatched, but this was what she lived for.

A chance to save a young life and spare a family an agonizing loss.

She was going to do everything in her power to bring Emma Rhodes home.