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I try to pick it up, and my eyes widen in horror when I can’t move it.
I can’t move my arm at all.
I’m confused at first, my brain foggy from being asleep. I’ve slept weird and had a hand or arm fall asleep on me before, but this doesn’t feel like that. There’s not even the faintest sensation of pins and needles, I just… I can’t feel anything.
Then my gaze jumps to movement in the shadows.
I can feel my heart pounding—I can hear it, too—but the scariest thing is that it feels like I can’t breathe.
I count three men emerging from the shadows in my bedroom. One of them grabs my hands and lifts me up to a sitting position, his hollow eyes meeting mine and calmly registering my panic.
Hollow because he’s wearing a mask. All of them are.
“Hurry up,” he tells one of his friends.
I feel the panic rising because I can’t draw a breath, and I try to jerk away instinctively when something is placed over my head, but of course, I’m immobile. The desire to move registers, but my body doesn’t listen to me.
Then a clear dome is fitted over my face, a strap wrapped around my head, and just like that, I can breathe again.
I would collapse with relief, but… well, I have no control over anything my body does.
“She breathing?” asks a guy behind me.
“She’s good,” says the calm one who honestly, could not seem to care less.
“Good. I think he’d be pissed if we killed her,” he says, but manages to sound amused more than anything.
“I knew how much time you had,” the first guy says as he stands. “We only have a few minutes though, so blindfold her and let’s get the hell out of here.”
“I gotcha,” says the guy behind me, wrapping an arm around me to keep me steady, then pulling a blindfold over my eyes.
I can no longer see, but I can feel the guy lift me from behind, supporting my weight easily as he lifts me to a standing position. The third guy, a bigger guy, comes over and picks me up, draping me over his shoulder.
The clear dome moves on my face, nudging the blindfold so the right side lifts enough for me to see.
I can’t see who’s carrying me, but I recognize his scent.
It’s Shane.
His voice sounds a little muffled, but he tells one of the other guys, “Make sure the mask is still on her right.”
One of them crouches down to check the fit and make sure I’m still getting assistance breathing. I try to look at him, but I can’t turn my head and he’s not at the right angle for me to get a good look. I feel leather gloves on my face as he adjusts the dome, then stands. “Yep. All good.”
I feel like a ragdoll as Shane carries me out of my bedroom, then out of my apartment. The tall, cold one must have walked out first, because the one who put the blindfold on me is the last to leave, and I watch him reach back inside to turn the lock before he closes the door, apparently making sure the place is secure so no one else comes in uninvited.
How considerate, I think sourly.
I’ve gleaned that I’m being abducted by Blue Bloods, but I don’t know why. I’m alarmed that they went to the trouble of using a paralytic, because I would think they’d know I’d just come willingly with a little mild threatening.
But I don’t know two of these men. Shane is the only one I recognized. The tall, cold one isn’t Hex, and the one who blindfolded me… I don’t know who the hell that is.
I don’t know what time it is, but it must be late. Thankfully, we don’t pass anyone in the halls on the way downstairs. A chill passes over me when we get outside. I’m wearing thin night clothes, and it’s cold as hell. Jerks could have at least grabbed my coat.
I’m not outside for long. A white Escalade is parked on the curb, and the tall guy opens the door like Hugh did for me earlier tonight. I’m jostled unpleasantly as Shane tightens his grip on me and hauls me into the car, careful not to bump my head as he does. I get a brief glimpse of white leather interior seats, then Shane shifts my weight and cradles me like a child, carefully putting me down across it.
Unfortunately, he also notices my blindfold has moved.
“No peeking,” he tells me, then he adjusts the blindfold so it’s covering both eyes again.
