Second That EmotionChapter 40
We searched the house from top to bottom for nearly two hours and couldn't find hide nor hair of the elder Van Lutens. I was getting depressed, mostly at not being able to keep Carlie's promise, but also over the death of Charlie. And not for the reasons you might think. I was convinced that her death had been a necessary evil. I regretted that she had died before I could find out what had happened to her folks, and even more than that I regretted that Izzy and Lilly had felt they had to...