Norah
My head throbbed as I forced my eyes to open, the ceiling of the bedroom I had accommodated in my captor's vacation house greeting me, the dim light trickling through the nightlamp assaulting my vision. I squeezed my eyes shut, opening them again, my mind blank, tiredness sweeping through me. " Ugh! " I touched a hand to my forehead as it throbbed, and finally sat up, wincing from the heaviness in my skull.
My captor stared back at me as he stood leaning on the wall in front of the bed, beside the door. And that really startled me to find him staring at me like a panther in the dark with a dangerous poker expression on his face.
" What are... are you doing here? " I stuttered, my voice barely audible to him.
He slid his hand into his sweatpants pocket, sliding out a rectangula
