The house was quiet enough to hear a pin drop.
Lily, who should have been resting there and recovering from her injuries, was gone.
Landon's mind went blank, and a sense of dread slowly crept over him. "Lily? Lily?"
His voice echoed through the empty rooms. But the gentle reply he used to hear every time was gone.
He searched every corner of the house, but there wasn't a trace of her.
Everything he had given her before had been thrown away and burned. All that remained was a pile of ashes.
He crouched down and dug through the ashes, finding a hair clip that had been burned beyond recognition. It was the one he had made himself for Lily's 15th birthday. The initials of their names had been carved onto it, but the letters were now blurred and damaged.
He never imagined Lily would thro
