There’d been a huge shift in how the FBI was going to handle Kate’s case going forward, since she’d revealed that she hadn’t been kidnapped. Camille felt confident that it was safe enough for her to start doing her forensic interviews at the police station and her deprogramming work with Brian at one of the local counseling centers downtown. Brian had spent most of our debriefing session yesterday stressing how important it was for all of us to start getting back into our daily routines to help us feel a sense of normalcy again, since it’d been almost two weeks since our world had flipped upside down. He said it would help Kate feel more secure too. On Monday, Scott was going back to work, and Abbi was going back to school, even though neither of them wanted to.

“Are you going to be the one driving Kate to all her appointments?” Caleb asked.

I nodded.

“And they’re sure all of this is safe?”

“More so than they were before, but we can’t stay quarantined forever.” He waved down the server, and he quickly placed our order, not bothering to ask what I wanted, since I always had the caramelized pork chop with a spinach salad. “Have they found Love International yet?”

“I told you they found their camp, right?”

“Yes, and that it had been abandoned, but they were pretty sure that’s where she’d been living for at least the past few years.”

I nodded before continuing. “They haven’t found Ray or any of the other people they’re looking for, but members and disciples of Love International have come out of the woodwork.”

“Really?” He raised his eyebrows. “What’s that like?”

“Bizarre and nothing like I expected. Most of them are regular people. Some of them are super successful people too.”

He shook his head. “No way.”

“Seriously. You’d be surprised. I had no idea. And most of them are in support of him. They swear he changed their lives.” I tried to stay away from watching any of the footage, but it was almost impossible. Dateline had interviewed six former members last night, and nothing could’ve kept me from the program. All of them spoke in favor of Ray and the movement, except for a set of parents who’d lost their twenty-four-year-old daughter to Love International. They’d always been convinced they had something to do with her disappearance and described their hunt to find her.

“Well, they definitely changed Kate’s. How’s she doing? Any better?”

“It’s hard to say. She doesn’t mumble nearly as much, or at least not around other people anymore. She still seems pretty spacey and out of it most of the time, though, but she gets lively and interactive with Shiloh and Abbi. You can tell she cares about them.”