“Murders?” She was aghast. “What – what murders? Who murders?”
“Lily, for one,” the man said severely. “Or did you just think that he’d let her go on her merry way after she humiliated him by flirting with some guy in town?”
Briley was silent, stunned. “No – no, he didn’t kill her. He sent her to the cult re-education center in New Mexico.”
“The – what?” They all stared at her, totally disconcerted. “The f*****g what?”
“The place where Gideon sends the women and Guardians who disappoint him, it’s some compound in the desert. That’s where he started his whole cult movement idea thing, way back about fifteen years ago. The group split and some moved here to Utah with their Master, while ten or twelve men stayed behind to do recruiting and to keep the center open in case Gideon and his Ga
