Chapter 19

I was frightened to my very core and traumatised beyond words and description. By the time I'd woken up in the private hospital, hooked to tubes and wires, drips in my arm and surrounded by thick warn clothes and blankets- my throat was raw and bleeding, my fingers were frozen in a sickening position because of me trying to claw my way out. My toes were frozen and far apart and I could barely move any of my body parts. 

I think the doctors operated on my throat but I'm not sure because they advised me to not speak for two weeks because I practically destroyed my vocal cords with my screams.

When I was finally discharged from hospital, crippled in a chair because I still couldn't walk for some reason, I had lost everything. Aebischer had taken everything from me; the houses, the cars, the jets and most of the stuff I had purchased during my shopping sprees. 

Martina told me that I wouldn't be allowed to leave th