Hide and Seek by Nicholas Jordan

Author:Nicholas Jordan [Jordan, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-04T22:00:00+00:00

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BREE AWOKE IN TOTAL DARKNESS. Her memory was fuzzy and her head foggy, but it didn’t take long for her to recall the masked man who infiltrated her bedroom.

And now she was here . . . wherever here was.

She tried to sit up, but that only led to her hitting her head on something just above her. She instinctively reached for her now aching head, but she couldn’t even get her hands out from behind her back. She was suddenly horrified to discover that her hands were restrained with what felt like duct tape. There was also tape covering her mouth, preventing her from making any sounds that weren’t muffled and unintelligible.

Squirming around in the darkness, Bree quickly discovered how little space that she had. It seemed she was in a box or a crate of some kind. Barely large enough for her to fit inside with her legs curled up close to her body. She had never really been afraid of enclosed spaces, but waking up in a tiny box was certainly enough to make her feel claustrophobic.

The man she saw in her bedroom must have abducted her. But why? What did he want from her? And where had he taken her?

Was this box she found herself in actually a coffin?

Had she been buried alive?

As terrifying as that possibility was, and as difficult as it was to stay calm, she knew that she had to avoid panicking if she was going to figure out a way to get out of this nightmare.

As she was trying to wriggle her hands free from the tape that bound them, Bree noticed that she could hear muffled sounds from outside the box. She put her ear against one of the walls and listened.

She heard crickets chirping, and the distant hooting of an owl, but nothing more than that. That did pretty much confirm that it was still dark outside, but it didn’t tell her much more than that.

But the need for speculation came to an end when the top of the container she was trapped inside was lifted off and she found herself looking up at a pair of men dressed in heavy camouflaged clothing and masks that covered most of their faces. Only their eyes and mouths were visible through slits in the masks.

She started to ask them who they were and what they wanted but was reminded that there was tape covering her mouth when her words came out sounding like nothing but muted grunts.

The two men exchanged a look. Then one of them chuckled and turned away while the other reached inside the box and roughly yanked Bree out.

“Let’s go, sweetheart. Nap time is over.”

He unceremoniously dumped her on to her feet and then spun her around so that her back was to him. While Bree was terrified of these men, she felt slightly more at ease when the man behind her sliced away the tape to free her hands. She rubbed her sore wrists. She was about to remove the tape from her mouth too when she noticed a second wooden crate.

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