Slowly, carefully, she pushed against the wall until she stood on her own two feet. Taking one step forward, Andrea looked past the clothes and saw the man, standing in the kitchen with his back to her and talking on his phone. Her pulse a trip hammer in her ear, she slowly took a few more steps then ran for it.
Each clack of her heels was like thunder in the room. She got closer and closer to the window and could see the cars passing on the street when Andrea felt the hands grab her from behind and pull her back.
"MMMMMPHH! MMMMMPHH! MMMMMMPHH!" She tried to scream from beneath her gag but only moans came out. The most her neighbors might think was that she had a hot date over.
"Back
inside," the man told her testily as he dropped her kicking and struggling
body in the back of the closet. Then he began to wrap rope around her knees
and tied them together. After that she gasped as she watched him tie a nose
and hang one end of it to the pole the clothes hung on.
Is he going to hang me to punish me? she asked herself.
The man held the noose in his hand and saw the terror in his eyes. For a moment he stared at her frightened face and smiled. Then he quickly reached forward and she squinted her eyes shut. Then she felt something draw tight around her ankle and she opened her eyes apprehensively.
"You'll never get out of here now," he told her. Andrea kicked twice and then let her foot drop because she knew she was defeated.