Nine
Evelyn
I squinted at the sudden light when the bag was pulled off my head.
I didn’t know where I was or who had taken me, and my heart hammered a terrified beat behind my ribs. Whoever it was, I knew this wasn’t going to end well for me.
After they snatched me, I’d been thrown in the backseat of a car with my hands zip-tied behind my back. My abductor had driven for perhaps half an hour or more before he stopped and slung me over his shoulder, carrying me to this room and sat me down in a chair. There had been stairs, and I had a sickening feeling that I was back in the horrible basement where I had thought I would die. Well, perhaps that premonition would still come true.
But once my my pupils got accustomed to the light, I noticed it was brighter and less orange than that basem
