CHAPTER 56:
A DEATH TRAP
Bella’s head seemed to weigh a ton. Her shoulders ached. She slowly opened her eyes and tried to roll over, but her arm was caught. She blinked away the blurriness. There was a length of rope tied around her wrist. She looked down at her feet. They were in stirrups. She was strapped to a bed. Gasping, she looked around a room with bare walls, a sterile stench, dusty lino flooring, and a silver tray of implements on a mobile table. She looked closer at the implements and a chill ran down her spine. In the tray lay a scalpel, a hammer, a serrated knife, and scissors.
Mari, Dawn, she corrected herself, was going to torture her and then kill her like she had the others. The ropes cut deeply into her skin. She pulled, but the restraints wouldn’t budge. As for the sti
