Jeffery Herd was the 7th child to be returned. The first seven had been returned consecutively. One each day. Each one beaten worst then the one before. Alex was numb. Nathan had been number 13. He was the last one to be taken and would be the worst beaten. It crushed her soul to the look in to those little children's eyes, the youngest being only 4. They were broken. Hell, SHE was broken. None of the children remembered much, only one thing that every child said. They remembered his voice. Deep, they would describe it, like those monsters on T.V. He would talk to them as he hit them. Tell...
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