Chapter 101. Consequences

Alicia's POV

It takes me a few seconds to realize I'm swaying - not like a pendulum - but it's a movement not caused by me. 

It takes me another few seconds to realize I'm unable to move my limbs - what the fuck?

It takes me yet another one minute to notice everywhere is dark and that I'm blindfolded. That's when the stark realization hits me in the chest -

Not again... 

I've been kidnapped.

I begin to thrash against the bindings holding my hands hostage at my back and those at my legs. My only joy is that my mouth is not bound, so I open it and scream, but even that is fleeting when I feel the solid nudge of something against my temple.

It's a gun. It has to be a gun. 

"One more word out of that pretty mouth of yours and I'll pump lead into your head. Nod if you understand me."

I nod immediately and a small sense of relief flits through me when the weight of the gun against my head is removed. I c