The Butterfly Tattoo by M D Thomas

Author:M D Thomas
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781734487015
Published: 2020-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Three

ELLE

The pounding was the first thing Elle became aware of.

It wasn’t a hangover—she’d have recognized that right away. This was a different beast. Her eyes squeezed shut, it resonated through her skull like an alarm bell and when she moved her head throbs of pain made her stomach churn. She recoiled from the queasiness, afraid to move again in case she barfed all over her bed.

Gotta get some pills…

The thought of moving was frightening but she had to get something to help with the pain. She cracked open her eyes at the same time she tried to sit up, her head pounding like a motherfucker.

But she couldn’t sit up. Her arms were caught on something.

Confused, drunk, and still full of pain, she rolled her throbbing head to one side, squinted at her arm, and saw there was a rope tied around her wrist. She flexed the arm in disbelief and saw the rope raise off the bed and tighten, her arm moving no more than a couple of inches.

That’s when it all came rushing back, the woman in her apartment, that shrew swinging the bowl at her head.

Elle jerked her arm again, harder, and still it wouldn’t budge. A bloom of fear expanded in her chest as she swung her head the other way and saw that her other wrist was bound as well. The pain forgotten as adrenaline flowed into her veins, Elle raised her head and looked at her feet, saw two more ropes stretching to the corners of a bed she finally recognized as not her own.

She began to scream.

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