Chapter 14
Muted but frantic barking jerked Paisley to consciousness.
Duke.
She turned her head toward the sound, straining to see. But there was only blackness, and the motion made her muscles scream. Everything hurt and her mind seemed shrouded in fog. She tried to swallow, only to find something blocking her tongue. The strangeness of that dragged her back to awareness.
Not something. A gag. And she couldn’t see because she was blindfolded. Her arms and feet were immobilized. Bound to a chair? Wood creaked as she strained to move. The rest of it came back in a rush. The woods. She was attacked. Drugged.
Fresh fear spiked beneath the remnants of the drugs. Where was she? How long had she been out? Where was her kidnapper? She couldn’t hear anything over the roaring of her pulse and
