The way she smiled at him. The trust.The love.
He was going to get her back and there was no way he was going to allow himself to even think for a moment that he wasn’t going to see her again. The second he got her back, he was never letting her go.
“Stop!” Joe’s call came out hard and sharp.
Caleb stopped and turned to see Joe’s head lifted, and he took off to the left. He followed.
“What is it?” Caleb asked. “I can smell something.”
They came to a rundown house that was better suited in a horror movie than in real life. Paint on the wood panels was chipped off, some parts a dark gray, others black. The scent of decay was heavy in the air. Somewhere around there was stale water as well. Underlying, he smelled something else.
Joe took off.
Entering the house, the door crumbled as he
