Chapter 5

Dad sat up, pulling on his clothes, and his first words were still, "Where could she have gone? She must be hiding in the shop, waiting for us to talk her into coming back."

Alex was also woken by the noise and followed them downstairs in his slippers.

After the rolling shutter was raised, the shop was pitch black.

The yellow timesheet ledger was still sitting in the middle of the table, with the old folded apron beside it. The bottom shelf of the metal cabinet was empty.

My ID card and school admission documents were gone, leaving only six…