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After a brief stop to look at the ruined farmhouse where Emily and Daisy had been found, which was still being examined by the forensics team from Branton, Harrison and Melissa continued up the road to the Wright Farm.
“Do you think anyone’s home?” Harrison asked as he got out and headed across the yard to the front door of the farmhouse.
“It doesn’t look like it,” Melissa said. “Neither Kieran’s Land Rover nor his dad’s are here; I guess they’ve got to keep the farm going, despite what’s happened. Tara could be here, though. If I was her, I wouldn’t want to go to school after everything; mind you, I wouldn’t really want to stick around here on my own either.”
Harrison considered that as he reached out to knock on the door. He had come to the farmhouse in the hope of finding Kieran
