The policeman assured us they would do their best to bring Emily back but Mom kept crying. I couldn’t blame her, I was scared too and I understood how it felt for your child to be missing.

I returned home and kept blaming myself for what happened. If I didn’t get into the argument with her, maybe she wouldn’t have been kidnapped. I regretted everything that happened, I should have sat my ass inside and left her to go wherever she wanted as long as she returned home.

I sat on my bed staring blankly. I didn’t know what to do, I just needed Emily to be found. I looked...