GirlDetectiveTrouble

Chapter 13: The Hogtie in the Warehouse Ella Grunting into the cloth gagging her mouth, Ella rolled about on the floor. Or, at least, flopped about, since rolling was difficult the way she was tied. Rope bit into her wrists where they were tightly lashed together. More rope bit into her arms, looped around them and across her chest, coils looped both below and above her breasts. As much as she tried, she couldn’t even budge them, her arms well and truly bound to her body. Her legs were just as immobile, coils around her ankles, just below her knees, and another pinning her thighs together. These latter loops sat just below the hem of her dress, which now was a little the worse the wear. When Jack and Louise had got to work on tying her up, they weren’t leaving anything to chance. To make sure she was completely immobile, they had used another length of rope to tie her ankles to her wrists, pulling her arms back and her feet towards them. Ella had heard Jack mention something

Chapter 10: The Plan in the Car Sarah Ella and I stood there for a moment. After all that had happened, everything had fallen quiet, save for the ever-reducing crackle of flames from my earlier explosion. The silver car disappeared into the distance, its engine sound also reducing to nothing. “I’m so sorry,” I said to Ella. “No apologies,” she replied. She seemed oddly calm given that she had been abducted, tied up, and just watched her girlfriend being kidnapped. She continued to speak: “There was nothing more you could have done. You saved me, and that means that we can now go and save Amy.” She started to struggle with the ropes still around her arms and chest. “Although that might be easier without these.” “Hang on,” I said, using the knife to cut her free. Letting the ropes drop to the ground, I pointed away from the docks. “My car is over there. Let’s get out of here.” A few minutes later we were approaching my car. We both fell in, doors slamming shut. For a