garage of the penthouse. The tires shrieked against t

in was

ie to move. They reached in, grabbed her arms, and dragged her ou

chair, looking down at her scraped knees and bleeding palms

her legs. She scrambled to her kn

forced! He grabbed me!" she

chair around, presentin

om," he ordered the guards. "No one

her armpits. They dragged he

Allie screamed, thrash

s slid shut, cutt

er down the long corridor to the very end, stopping in fron

for a single cot. The walls were lined with thick, gray aco

orway. His face was a mas

munication devices

e, Vance. It's dead anyway. I need it. I have to wait

re about her lies. He reached out, grabbed her wrists, and

llie lung

the hallway. The massi

Clank

ed into place. She was comple

door, pounding her bloody palms agains

am swallowed he

e lights ove

ss so thick it felt like a physical weight pressing against her eyeba

cramped violently from hunger and sheer terror. In the dark, her mind began pro

awled blindly across the floor until she found the cot. She wrapped herself tightly in the thin

g window, staring out at the glittering Manhattan skyline.

od and water have been withheld. She appears physic

ict crossed his eyes, but it was quickly de

n," Curtis snarled. "She

he electronic lock on the pa

ight flooded in, stabbing Allie's dilated pupi

plastic cup of water and a

ed off the cot, her legs shaking so badly

one minute," she begged, h

floor. He pulled a piece

ssion admitting your infidelity and promising to never see

Allie. She had done nothing wrong. But she ha

e pen," she

ned her name on the dotted line. A tear

phone onto the cot and walked out. The door shut

the phone. Sh

ith fifteen missed calls. All

age popped up.

room. Her hand was gripping the power cord o

ic in thirty minutes. Brittanie had an episode and needs a b

g to ice. She had just survived the dark roo