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<< Death Waltz - Adam S Hurst, Adam Hurst >>
Awareness came to Jacob slowly and to an agonizing pain that tore through his upper back.
The skin at his shoulders felt tight as though they were stretched taught across his shoulder blades.
Before he blinked his eyes open, he registered three things simultaneously: his hands were tightly bound behind his back with a thick cord of wire; a cold breeze was invading every inch of his bare, exposed skin; and his feet were not touching the floor.Â
'What happened? Where am I?'Â
His vision cleared to the sight of a dark, open space of thick concrete walls with a wide metal covering across the centre of the space.Â
He cast his eyes down to the floor and his heart rate spiked, pounding wildly in his chest.Â
His feet were dangling just an inch above it, a slow trickle of blood running down his leg.Â
A single drop fell from the tip of his toe and dripped onto the concrete.Â