Chapter Three
The heavy doors closed behind her, and she found herself in a spacious cabin. Ornately furnished and well-lit, it spanned the entire width of the boat. Video cameras were mounted in strategic positions to scan the room. A circular bed dominated the far end; fluted white columns running from floor to ceiling, formed a semi-circle before it. Full-length mirrors adorned the walls. And in those mirrors, repeated to infinity, one could see the reflected forms of two girls who had been hung from the ceiling, suspended by their wrists from a latticework of sturdy crossbars.
Mallory was stunned to find her young partner suspended with hands strung up high over her head. The position forced Kip up on the tiptoes of her sneakers, her narrow body stretched so that a considerable gap
