ALIANA

I don’t hear the footsteps that suddenly appear all around me.

Is there ever a warning that prepares anyone for the reality I experience because I didn’t see this coming. I am humming a tune while thinking on my plan to surprise Michael.

I step toward my car.

That’s when something hard presses against my back.

“Don’t scream.”

The voice is low and mean.

Another body crowds me from the front. I feel a material wrapped over me as I am overpowered by huge muscles and a strange smell.

“Breathe,” the voice says calmly. “If you fight, this gets ugly.”

My heart starts to hammer so hard it hurts....