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his voice and laid his hand over June’s on the table, giving her a quick, reassuring squeeze. Lucy carefully lowered herself into the chair and drew in her breath. This woman before her, she was why Lucy did her job—why she was compelled to return to work, no matter the cost. It wasn’t sexy work, didn’t grab front-page headlines like tracking terrorists, but it was important work.
    She might only have three days left before her squad was officially terminated, but damn it, she was not going to deny a victim like June Unknown any assistance she could offer. “What can I do for you?”
    June opened her mouth but Seth patted her hand and spoke. “You know the civil suits I’ve been pursuing on behalf of June?”
    “Asking for reparations from anyone found guilty of possessing her images. My understanding is that it might go all the way to the Supreme Court.”
    “The lower courts have upheld the findings in our favor for the most part. So far we’ve sued eighty-three defendants and won judgments adding up to over ten million dollars.” He paused. Not for breath, rather for dramatic effect. “But that’s eighty-three defendants out of fourteen hundred twenty-seven convicted of possessing images from the Baby Girl collection—not to mention the untold tens of thousands more who have yet to be brought to justice.”
    Lucy raised a palm. “You’re preaching to the choir. We know how rampant the problem is.”
    So of course the powers that be were eliminating the SAFE program, she didn’t add, focusing on Seth and June.
    “It’s not about the money. Our hope is that if the Supreme Court upholds our verdicts, this strategy of pursuing civil reparations might become a useful weapon for law enforcement to threaten defendants with during plea bargain agreements. In other words, what June and I are doing is important not just to victims but also prosecutors and law enforcement officers. Not to mention the legislation it might spawn to further protect victims’ rights.”
    “I don’t understand,” Lucy said, trying to curb her impatience. “Are you here because of one of your civil suits?”
    June planted both her palms on the tabletop and shifted in her seat as if uncomfortable. “We’re here because you and your team might be able to stop the child predators from killing the case before it ever goes to the Supreme Court.”
    “How so?” Lucy asked.
    “There have been threats. Against June’s life,” Oshiro put in from where he’d planted himself near the door. “At the last trial, they also threatened the judge, so the Marshals got involved. But they’ve smartened up. This time it’s only June they’re targeting and since it’s a civil proceeding, we can’t offer her protection. Not officially, at any rate.”
    “But Oshiro here,” Seth nodded toward the big man, “gave us some names—retired agents. Even with their protection, even living like fugitives, the bastards still found us.” Bitter anger colored his voice.
    June pushed to her feet, obviously impatient with all the rhetoric, revealing her extremely pregnant belly for the first time. “It’s not just me they’re threatening. This time they want our baby.”
     

 
    The Girl Who Never Was: Memoirs of a Survivor
    by June Unknown
     
    How I Got My New Last First Name
     
     
    IT WAS THE social worker who gave me my name.
    “Jane Doe is no name for a girl her age,” she told the doctor and policeman—this one different from the first two, he wore a suit and wouldn’t look at me.
    I was sitting on the floor in the corner of a small room that smelled like Daddy does after he comes back from running. Looking up at the adults sitting at the table and standing above me made me feel tiny, like if I squeezed myself small enough, I could escape through a crack in the wall and run home to Daddy.
    But Daddy had left me. I didn’t know where home was. The green elephant man never came—maybe he knew where Daddy was.
    Daddy told me to sit