Ishtar's POV
I could sense danger all around me, yet my eyes were shut tight. There was a tight pressure around my legs and arms, as if I were being tied. With great effort, I fluttered my eyes, trying to open them. I didn't know where I was or what I was doing there, but it certainly wasn't home. A tightness gripped my head as an ache began building up. I tried to remember what had happened and where I was, but each time I tried, the pain in my head worsened.
My thoughts were a jumbled mess, fragments of the evening flashing through my mind; the tension in the hall, Louis and the anger that drove me to leave. But now, in the dim light filtering through my half-opened eyes, all I could see were shadows and indistinct shapes.
Panic started to set in as I realized how vulnerable I was. Th
