Their voices were distorted and echoed like they were in a tunnel. They all sounded far away. Ava’s thoughts whirled in her head, making no sense. Her heart pounded against her chest so loudly that it was all she could hear.
She turned away from them to open the door, but it wouldn't budge.
She was trapped.
And they were still speaking to her, surrounding her, their concern heavy in the air. How could she feel that?
"Let me out!"
She couldn't tell whether she screamed it or said it. The three men in front of her stepped back and looked at her as if she had grown three heads.
What her dad had said was impossible. That nightmare started after she had been nosy and read the newspaper articles about the time her birth father was murdered and those dismembered bodies were found in the
