I tried to tiptoe my way to the bedroom, slowly following the sound as my ears filled with awareness of my own loud breathing and accelerated heart rate. A sudden ring resonating intensely in my head as I got closer. It was the sound of deafening silence after a normal noise-filled day. All my senses were hyper-alert. I wasn’t afraid, I was spectant. I would finally get to meet the sender of those notes, the presumptuous brain behind the plan to kidnap me. If whoever they are, thinks I’m going down without a fight, they are very much mistaken. I’m as ready as one can be, waiting for an imminent kidnapping. What will happen after I cross that threshold will not be completely out of my hands, I would give as much as I would get. The fire of fury burning inside me at the thought of being d

