The car kept going for over an hour. By the time it stopped, the man had zip-tied my hands behind my back and blindfolded me.“Where are we?” Alex asked, his voice clear.The question was followed by the harsh sound of skin hitting skin, Alex whimpering, and my flinch.“Shut the fuck up. I don’t want to fucking hear you until I return you.”My body was dragged into what might have been a building. After climbing multiple steps, it was clear the building was huge. My chances of escaping grew thinner by the minute. My hands were tied, literally and figuratively.Eventually, the man pushed me onto a cold cement floor, then a heavy door slammed shut.For a second, the blindness, silence, and inability to move my arms made me panic. Pain spiked through my arms when they struggled against the ties.“Calm down. You’re only going to hurt yourself. You know better.” I flinched. I didn’t know better, but that didn’t mean any part of me was ready to hear Alex’s voice unless it was to give an exp
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