Asher
"Uncle Asher, where is Joy?" I nearly ran out to follow Alison when Joe asked me that. What was I supposed to say? "That bad man hurt her!" Why did he let them watch that gruesome scene?
"Uncle Asher, that bad man hurt Joy. She was crying but she said she was OK." Jayden added quietly. He was the most outgoing of the boys but he hadn't said much since waking up. Before Joe had spoken, he was seated quietly staring at nothing. "She is not coming back, is she?" I immediately felt like someone stabbed me in the chest.
"How do you know that?" We hadn't talked about how we were going to break the news to them. I had thought about using the typical lies I had seen in movies. Some bull.shit about going very far away or something.
"I don't feel her in here anymore," said Joe seriously, a
