Esther groaned in pain as she came to consciousness. “What happened?”

One moment she was driving towards home after visiting her son to give him his birthday present. The next,she was here.Here in question was a spacious room with lots of boxes around her, the only other object occupying the room was a dim bulb which glowed above her head producing the sole source of illumination in the otherwise dark room. She tried to move and discovered to her horror that she was confined to a chair and bound with ropes, which restricted her movements. She drew her head back and let out a huge sigh of frustration.

‘ How...