Missing: (The DI Scott Baker Crime Series Book 7) by Jay Nadal

Author:Jay Nadal [Nadal, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-05T23:00:00+00:00

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Her cries went unnoticed, her pleas unheard.

No doors.

No windows.

No way out.

Every minute felt like hours. She could hear a clock tick close by, so with effort, she opened her weary eyes and saw nothing. Darkness enveloped her, trapping her in a cocoon of hell. Maybe she had imagined the clock, but its echoes penetrated the stillness of the air.

Looking around, she could see an indefinite expansion of pure dark space. No light. No shadows. Only different shades of blackness. Though there appeared to be nothing but open space around her, she felt the feeling of suffocation, like her lungs caving in. She was trapped, imprisoned in her own mind. She moved nothing but her eyes, her mind racing whilst every muscle stayed still.

There was nothing for company other than her heartbeat and rancid breath. Even the smell of her piss and shit blended into the stale pungent smells that clung in the air. Every time she so much as shifted, the wire screeched, the shrill cutting into her. Her skin was sickly; pallid and stretched over her stark bones. She hadn’t eaten or drunk much for a week, maybe longer, she couldn’t be certain. Her feet were bare and grubby, and all she wore over her frail body was a set of ragged robes soiled in her own bodily waste.

She’d never felt so alone.

Fear became replaced by tiredness, weakness and surrender. Desperate to be heard, she cried out once more, but nothing other than a faint whisper escaped from her dry throat. Sadness welled deep within and she cried, but no tears fell. She had nothing left.

Rats scurried around beneath her feet. Once scared of them, they now offered a perverse comfort in knowing she wasn’t alone.

The cold of the winter’s night didn’t penetrate this deep. The small gas heater had lost its warm, orange glow hours ago, but heat remained, stroking her clammy skin.

He’s never let the gas run out before, she thought. Will it make any difference if he comes? He’ll only offer a few scraps of food and some Ribena, things my body rejects. Why I don’t know? Why me? How long will he keep me here? Why is he keeping me here? Someone must be looking for me by now?

Her mind spun. Her eye’s felt heavy once again, and the feeling of hunger had left her. She succumbed to tiredness once again.

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