Eugene kissed Loren goodbye. She did not kiss him back and he may as well have been kissing a statue.

Loren was a shadow of the woman she had once been. She had descended into hatred and depression since Erin had disappeared.

Eugene and Loren had made a trip one fine day to visit Horton and Erin at their house. They had not found Erin or Horton initially. A search of the property had led to the discovery of two bodies. The search had been widened to the nearby forest where Horton and a fourth body had been found.

Eugene had been livid and had ordered the surrounding forest searched....