Chapter 1

She woke up with a heavy head. It hurt to open her eyes. The back of her head rung with pain. As she started to roll her head upright and move she realized she was tied to a chair. The rope around her wrists behind her dug and she tried to wriggle loose. Where was she? How did she get here? What was the last thing that she remembered?

Elizabeth remembered her day. She drove to the hospital, dropped off Cameron and Aiden at the daycare, and then started her shift. Ewen. Then she ran into Ewen and planned to meet him for lunch. She did her rounds, checked on patients, assisted in an appendectomy, and then headed to Ewen's office.

Her eyes squinted as she tried to remember what happened next. It was quite unclear. Her head throbbed and by the wetness dripping down her neck she assumed it was blood rather than sweat with the cold temperature around her. It was dark and her eyes were still adjusting.

"Think Elizabeth, think," she said to herself, assuming she was alone.

Ewen. She went into Ewen's office. He wasn't there. She walked towards his desk and saw a note.

Elizabeth,

I went to check on Patrick. Wait for me.

Ewen

Elizabeth picked up her wrist to check the time, dropped the note, bent down to pick it up and she saw his name.

She winced as she remembered back. She saw his name. She wasn't crazy, she saw it. It was on one of the strips of paper in the paper shredder. Jacob Martin Spencer. That's what is said. She remembers seeing it and then BOOM. Pain. Instant pain.

That is all she remembers until just waking up. Tears started to build in Elizabeth's eyes. Some from pain and some from seeing her dead son's name. Why was there a paper shredded with her son's name on it in Ewen's paper shredder? Did Ewen hit her on the head? Did he tie her up? Why would Ewen do this to her? She thought he liked her. She was starting to convince herself to like him.

She needed to focus on now. She had to figure out how to get out of here.

"Help!," Elizabeth screamed as loud as she could. She screamed through the pounding pain in her head, "HELP!"

The door scared her as it swung open from behing her. The light shined in and reflected off of the wall in front of her and blinded her briefly until she could see a shadow on the wall of a man. Elizabeth breathed heavily, staring at the shadow on the wall.

A voice she recognized, or remembered started to speak, "Well, well, well Babysbreath Elizabeth, long time no see."