Chapter 43: Where Am I?

I hoped that what had happened earlier had been a nightmare. I slowly opened my eyes; when I saw that I wasn't in my bed at the mansion, I knew that it had to be real.

I felt rope tied around my wrists and ankles and could feel the coolness of the metal from the chair. There was even a piece of cloth covering my mouth. I felt the urge to scream but knew it was pointless. Nobody would be able to hear my cries for help.

This was the worst possible situation I could've been in. I never imagined that this scenario would happen to me. How had I gotten caught up in this?

Maybe I shouldn't have been so careless earlier. I wished I wouldn't have been walking in that shady area. I knew better than that, but it was too late to blame myself for what had already gone down.

I tried to get a sense of where I was by looking around the room. I didn't want to lose all of my hope for getting out of here.

It was too dark to see anything to give away where those men had taken me. The one lightbul