Context: After entering the room and looking at the corpse of her mother's
love affair, the girl said these two lines:

> あのまま彼がママに会ってたらママを取られてた？  
>  だったら彼は死んだほうがいいってわけ

My literal understanding of the first sentence is "if he and mom met each
other, she would be taken away from us/she would leave us", and for the second
one is "if that's the case, then it'd be better for him to die". But when I
checked the official English translation, I see this

If he hadn't met mom, she would have left us. So isn't it a good thing that
he's dying?

あのまま might indicate a situation happened in the past, so if clause type 3
makes sense to me, but shouldn't it be "had met" instead of "hadn't met"? Why
does the publisher translate あのまま彼がママに会 as a negative sentence here?
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I'm pretty sure it's just an error. At the end of the day even proof read
translations can contain errors.
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> あのまま彼がママに会ってたらママを取られてた？

A rather literal translation will be: "If nothing had been done and he had met
my mom, **I** would have been deprived of my mom." The subject of the last
half is 私 (="I"), which is omitted.

Apparently the girl did not want him to meet her, so I think the official
translation is wrong.
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