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Miranda groaned. The pain was excruciating. It came in throbbing waves, washing over her in a seemingly endless succession of stabbing pains deep in her groin. She found it difficult to stand, and she wanted desperately to lie down and never get up.
The man gripped her arm tight, and shoved her in front of him as he guided her towards the door to what had become her prison. Locked in a fog of pain and a deep sense of incomprehension, she seemed to have lost all sense of reality. All she could think about was the unrelenting pain.
As if she had mentally stepped aside from reality, and was mysteriously conveyed to another place, she hardly noticed as the man unlocked the door, and shoved her forcefully into the room. When she stumbled, and fell heavily to her knees, she fully realised w
