“I think it’s not ideal,” Abby said. “If she’d come to us beforehand, we could have told her to wait, let the kidnappers call a few more times. We would have crafted a better message for her to post, one that gives the kidnappers reasons to keep contacting us.” “Yeah,” Carver muttered moodily. “But she did a pretty good job of humanizing Nathan. If the kidnappers are trying to distance themselves from him, it’ll make it harder for them. And she made them feel like things were going their way. They feel in control, which is a good thing.”
