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“I thought of leaving, once.”

Emma gave him a startled look. “Leaving … Paradise Ridge? Or your faith?”

“Both.”

Caleb stopped, stunned that he had said it, that he had told this stranger, this woman, this English, what he had told no one else. Ever.

“I’ve found,” Emma said, “that it’s never a good or successful idea to run away from something.”

“What did you mean, when you said I didn’t have to worry?”

“I’ve turned up a couple of possible leads. They stopped an older man driving a van with a couple of young girls in it.”

Caleb drew back sharply. “Hannah?”

“No, sorry,” Emma said quickly. “Neither girl is a match to any of ours.”

Any of ours.

She’d said it as if she truly felt it. As if the missing girls were a part of her own community.

Lovely, empathetic and smart—she was all of that.

And to him, apparently, dangerous.