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Emma’s POV: Trouble is on its way. I get that bad feeling in my gut when we leave New York’s borders, and it lingers while we drive into Maryland. The kids are finally asleep, after forty minutes of watching cartoons loudly on their tablets and repeatedly asking where we’re going. The truth is, I don’t know where we’re going. My plan is to make it to my mom’s house in Virginia, but what then? We can’t stay there for long. Not only does it put my mother and her boyfriend, Riza, in danger, but it’s also the first place Matteo will come looking. It can’t be more than a pitstop for us, and I have no clue where else we can go. Alex squeezes my hand, bringing me out of my panicked thoughts. I glance at where our intertwined fingers are resting on my thigh. The bracelet he gave me a fe