Chapter 31Devereux's Demise
The Stygian blackness that filled the mind of Lucas Devereux slowly gave way to a feeling of general nausea and restricted movement. He felt as if he was in some kind of box, and panic gripped his fevered mind as the thought he might be in a coffin, buried alive, took hold of his thoughts, only to be dispelled a minute or two later as his senses returned sufficiently for him to ascertain that he was tied hand and foot, secured with plastic ties and his eyes, gradually focussing once more, just managed to tell him he was in a darkened room with a concrete floor on which he was lying sideways, on his right, a garage perhaps, or a warehouse of some kind? His mouth felt strange; as though his lips were prised open and he tried, but was unable to speak or scream or
