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EDGAR’S SUV WOVE THROUGH the Pasadena traffic. Ray didn’t care how fast he was going. He needed to get the girl to the hospital.
He was surprised at Emma’s sudden change in allegiance. Once she’d seen Katie was hurt, even though the girl had gone after her head with a garden trowel, all Emma cared about was keeping her safe. Whatever brainwashing Edgar had put her through, at her core she thought he was helping the runaways. Her need to help Edgar had come from a place of giving those kids better lives. Anyone deep into that lie would’ve seen Ray’s coup as a threat to her delicate balance of existence, but having Katie with him must have knocked something loose in Emma’s illusions, seeing that if Edgar really cared about them, Katie’s safety would’ve been his highest priority. Even as
