"Hey!" Connie yelled angrily, as she spun to regain her balance, "You don't have to be so rough!"
The man who had seized her, dark, greasy, unshaven and smelly, looked out at the other woman who stared at him in wide-eyed terror. For an interminable moment, their eyes locked in uncertainty. Then, the man lunged forward as Marie turned to run and grabbed her around the waist. Before she could scream, he clamped one hand over her mouth and pulled her inside, as well.
The look on Connie's face only heightened Marie's fear. Her playfulness had disappeared and she glared suspiciously at the man who seized her. Behind him, three other men and one woman, all in various stages of dishevelment, sat on punctured pillows and beat up mattresses strewn around an otherwise empty room. One pointed a ri
