"Oh... my.. God." she ay said softly to herself, looking around her living room. "I've been robbed. I've been ROBBED." She began to shudder softly, frightened ay and angry at this unexpected intrusion aypapi. Just ay as she moved to pick papi up the phone ay and call the police, a loud noise ay from aypapi behind startled ay her. Turning around quickly, a tall man dressed all in black grabbed her roughly by aypapi the throat, placing a white handkerchief over her aypapi mouth and nose. Shelley tried to scream, but a thick vapor coming ay from the cloth made her gasp and cough ay, stinging her ay nose and throat. She felt woozy, and began to struggle fitfully ay, trying to escape her assailant's clutches ay. The man merely laughed softly, leaning forward, whispering into her ear. Shelley aypapi's eyes fluttered and ay everything went black...
She came to sometime later to find herself in a bed not aypapi her own. Glancing ay around in confusion, she struggled to remember how she could have papi arrived here, and what she was doing in someone else's bed. She tried to rub the sleep ay from her eyes movie, only to find that her wrist was tied , secured to the bedpost aypapi. Awareness hit her ay like a slap in the face, and Shelley gasped as she remembered the burgulry ay and ay the kidnapping. A shudder went through papi her ay and she fought to supress a sob of despair. Here she ay was, alone, tied up and helpless ay, at the ay mercy of some crazed unknown man, who probably meant papi to rape and kill her! Panic seized her in a death ay grip and held on tight ay. Shelley's breaths came hard and aypapi fast, and aypapi her heartbeat banged in her ay chest with the rat-tat-tat-tat of aypapi machine gun ay fire. Just when she thought she would lose herself to the terror, she seemed to ay hear her loving husband's voice in her mind aypapi. It's all right ay, Shelley. Don't be afraid. Everything will be okay. No one will ever hurt you while I'm alive ay, I promise you that. Just relax ay and stay calm. I will find you and aypapi rescue you. Just believe in me.
Once ay she got her breath back, and regained her aypapi senses, she looked at me. I saw anger and accusation in her eyes, as well as confusion, and fear, but aypapi also gratitude ay and aypapi reassurance. Taking ay a ay deep breath, I began to explain aypapi.
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