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"Ma’auy appears from the back of the carousel with my ticket in his hand "I’ address"

"Urgh To which fking address?!" I pull out my phone and write down the address, then track it on my phone and see it’s only a few blocks away "Do you have the correct delivery for theet in trouble"

"My dear sir, you’re already in trouble and I’ll ive et my dress Call them and tell them I’m on my way Please!"

Reluctantly, he hands over a suit and a floral dress, and I grab the clothes on their plastic hangers and hurry down the street, and up several flights of stairs, where I knock on the door and say to the man who opens it, "Excuse me, there was a s to you, and you have sos to me, which I need desperately for to a beer and looks me up and down like I’m some escort sent to pleasure him

I repeat exactly what I just told him and use his das

"I don’t check this shit, my wife does, and she’s not in"

"Please just take this in and verify if it’s yours, and check your closet or somewhere for a recently cleaned red dress This here e hassle with the suspicious etup and in plastic Thank god

I head back to where I had to park my car two blocks away These little alleyways have zero parking spots and I’ care of my shoes, when I hear a whistle from across the alley I stop and look up, and a , wide One of my eyebrows flies up, and then the other

What the?

My heart picks up speed as a flicker of alarh me I turn around when I hear footsteps behind me, and I see two men A ball of anxiety knots within me as I scan the area A dark car is parked near the end of the alley where I’m headed I think I see one htly ajar, as though the single ot out of the vehicle

So upout of here I duck ht ahead, not even caring about the puddles anyer, whichI can use toto what? Wild ani about these men screa in me Every step that takes e of the deserted alley gnaay at my confidence

I’m about to pass him when he takes a step forward and I rabslike a rowls

I flinch and retreat a step when I see his frightening expression, but he yanks ling in his breath as he repeats, looking down at me with red-rimmed eyes, "I said you’re not excused, bitch"

Panic like I’ve never knoells iner into some part of his face, but before I can rabs hold of my arms and jerksto the ground with a clatter, and suddenly I’hs and the second keeps his hold hooked onme toward the car Icy fear wraps aroundin terror when I can’t get free, their fingers digging into the flesh of my wrists and calves now

There’s athe One see to kick his knee "NO!" I keep saying "No! NO!" A rag is pressed to my nose and for some reason I hold hting e to breathe I land a kick in the nuts and hear him yelp, then they both shove me into the back of car "HEEEEEELP!" I yell when they pull a black hood over my head and pitch black darkness descends

My breath leaves me frohten the bag lightly aroundbreaths echo inins to sink in andwhile another jams a hand to feelwith renewed vigor, screa the lonely,inside the hood covering , as I start to flail withthe I can

"little feisty onelet’s have our fun with her before we deliver"

My dress is pulled high and I kick and squirrabs hs and forces them open