“Wake her up.”
Ava was already beginning to rouse when a torrent of cold water came cascading down onto her face. Gasping, she bolted fully upright, only to choke against the ball gag that had been strapped around her head. Ava’s lungs burned and tears streamed down her face as she shook her head viciously, desperately trying to suck in oxygen while water still streamed down her nose.
Blinking the water from her eyes, Ava found the sleezy face of the man she’d kicked hovering just out of reach.
“Hello, sweetheart.” Each syllable was grotesquely drawn out.
Snarling, Ava lunged forward only to come up short when the metal shackles binding her wrists and ankles pulled taught.
Panicked, Ava looked down the length of her body where she lay in on the fainting couch in the su
