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"Hello, Dad Yes, I’ve got her with me I found her She’s fine"

"I don’t understand I haven’t heard a word froot Emma back?"

"Yes, they know They don’t like the fact that I got her back without them"

"Tellwhen the cops and the FBI didn’t get anywhere I would have thought your people would know Well, I found her A guy had saved her and I ca to stay out of sight for a while"

"There’s no reason to, Molly Come home You can bet I’ll protect the both of you"

"No, not yet There are a lot le kidnapper I don’t want to take any chances I’ as those people are still out there and looking for her" Her knuckles hite she was clutching the phone so tightly "It’s not a siot a ransom note"

"Yes, but that ransom note arrived after I already had Emma back It was a lie Do you understand any of this?"

"No, but I’ll speak to Buzz about it We’ve already discussed the possibility of so is you’ve got Ehed She could picture hih toas of yet But I don’t like the feel of this at all How many people have you seen?"

"Probably four different et away froht I’ll speak to Buzz Carmen immediately He’s still in Denver How exactly did you find out about these otherso I pulled off at an exit When they went by, I got the license I checked with a friend who found out for me that the truck was reportedly stolen from a farmer in Loveland, Colorado The wife reported it; then the husband said he’d sold it It sounds like maybe he did sell it-to the kidnappers I phoned in the license plate to the Denver PD and the FBI I’d appreciate your checking as well, Dad, then I’d know it got done right" She gave hiot it I don’t suppose you’ll tell hed "Very well Come home, Molly"

"I’ll call tomorrow Emma’s just fine Don’t worry Those men won’t find us"

"About this man who found Emma Who is he? How can you be sure you can trust him?"

"If we can’t trust him, Dad, then it’s all over Believe me, he’s the most trustworthy man in the world Tomorrow, Dad" She pushed the Off button and laid the phone on the table

"At least you don’t call hi smile, warm and full She had a wide mouth and very white teeth His father was a dentist Ramsey always noticed a person’s teeth His old man would really like what he saw

Ramsey liked that s afraid She said, "Mason Lord is very good-looking He’s black Irish: fair skinned, hair like ink, straight and thick, just a dabbling of gray at his te blue, worown daughter, randchild, but he copes My mother was the one who told et the hang of it Neither could he I re Mason jar every time I used his first nahed, and said to forget it He’s been Dad for a very long tiht years old and ht of Mason Lord as having human qualities, like a sense of hu like hirandot very far with it because she wasn’t beautiful or very photogenic Boy, but could she act It turned out not to be enough"

"You’re far froeous smile "You should see my mother Now she’s what you’d call a looker She’s fifty-five now and still a head-turning beauty Both she and Father were appalled, I think, when I turned out the way I did"

She honestly believed what she was saying It amazed him Didn’t she look in a mirror once in a while? "Where’s your mother? What’s her name?"