CHAPTER 29
PURE MISERY
Elena came out of a deep slumber and rubbed her eyes. The putrid smell of sweat and discarded rubbish made her want to vomit. Her stomach felt rock hard and she soon realised she was holding her breath. There were bars all around her, and it took another few groggy minutes to understand that she was inside a human-sized cage. A deep weight pressed against her chest and a weakness fell over her legs and knees as she pushed hard against the bars. The sound of metal made her cringe with a hypersensitivity to noise she’d recently developed. Her skewed sense of time made her shudder. She didn’t know if was daytime or night.
She also didn’t know who had kidnapped her, but from her last memory, she’d been at the fashion show. She had drunk champagne that had made her diz
