If he went out, I had no way to leave with them.”

Megan placed a hand near her sister’s, leaving Hannah free to take it or not.

“He said if I called out, he’d take the girls somewhere I would never find them.”

Hannah looked down at the table.

“I know how that sounds when you’re already outside the house.”

“It sounds like a threat,” I said.

She nodded, but her face did not relax.

“When you were in the driveway,” I asked, “the day I waved…”