‘ This afternoon, Shawn Brayden was arrested at an abandoned house where he had brutally murdered his cousin, Antonio Brayden, who had been rushed to the hospital after he was shot twice in the chest…’

The rest of the broadcast fell on deaf ears. Everywhere spun in a flash making Eloise dizzy. A few minutes ago, she was violently shaken awake by Mason, her abductor.

She'd screamed, argued, tried to fight off, but her hands and legs were tied.

Mason had told her he was going to have her by hell, by heaven, and while she's still tied, he tried to make her feel at home by switching on the...