I was zip-tied in the back of a black SUV, headed to a private airstrip, when the man who’d just bought me—the one who’d been watching me in silence for forty minutes—suddenly froze. His eyes…
The smell hit me first. Motor oil and something metallic, like a penny held too long in a sweaty palm. I was in the back of a black SUV with tinted windows, my wrists zip-tied in front of me. The man across from me hadn’t said a word in forty minutes. He just watched me. … Read more