Chapter Seven
One night she worked late, not retiring to bed until after midnight, but falling immediately into a deep sleep. Suddenly, the nightmare came back. Alice could see not one but two shadowy figures in her room, and she started to scream. One seized her and clamped his hand over her mouth. She couldn’t breathe and she tied to force herself to wake up, and then she realised, it wasn’t a nightmare after all, this was really happening. The other man seized her, pulling her wrists roughly behind her back and handcuffing her. The man let go of her mouth, but immediately his accomplice put a sticky tape across her lips. She could breathe through her nose, but not make a sound of protest. Her ankles were tied together with rope and one of the men threw her over his shoulder. They went
