That night was a terrifying ordeal for Nancy Drew; she woke from the chloroform to find herself in a pitch-black room. Whoever this was wanted her scared, they apparently liked that they could keep her too afraid to try to escape.

'Who would want me like this?' Nancy wondered to herself in the darkness. The bindings on her wrists were beginning to hurt, and the new gag was beginning to bother her as well.

Horatio Cain couldn't help feeling ticked off, he was one-step behind whoever this was and that was a position he didn't like to be in. He was even more pissed when he discovered that nothing new had been found out, now they could only hope that Nancy was still alive.

Nancy looked up and squinted as the door opened and a bright light pierced the dark of the room in which she was being held.

"Well Nancy, I hope you like your accommodations," he said

'You've got to be kidding' Nancy thought

"You have such beauty it is a shame that I have to hide you like this… I can't have the police getting you before my client has had his chance at you," he said a vague hint at what might be to come.

Eric Delko was busy trying to find matches for the other prints found at the two scenes, but so far, he hadn't found much to tell him who had captured Nancy Drew. Then after several hours, he got a match

"Shit" he muttered then grabbed his cell phone and called Horatio

"H. I've got some bad news… one of the sets of prints we found at the first scene match with a convicted rapist that was released a few months ago here in Miami." Eric said trying to control his temper

"Do you think this guy has already assaulted her?"Horatio asked sternly

"That would be pure speculation H and you know it, we have no hard evidence to say in either direction," Eric said truthfully.

Just as they finished talking Natalia Boa Vista called Horatio with more news, a call had come in about a woman having been found wandering close to the edge of the Everglades.

"That could be Nancy," Horatio said

He and Ryan Wolfe arrived to discover that it wasn't Nancy Drew but Bess Marvin; she had managed to escape two locations back and stay hidden until she knew that her captors were long gone.

"Are you okay?" Ryan asked Bess who nodded to confirm that she was okay. She was taken to Miami Dade hospital where she was checked out and deemed okay to leave.

"Have you found Nancy?" Bess asked

"No, but I thought you might be able to help us figure out what her captor might have wanted with her." Horatio said to Bess

"I'm not sure what I can tell you, he kept talking about how beautiful she was and how he didn't want the cops to get to us before he could get her to his client. I managed to catch a moment when he forgot to lock everything and escape, but Nancy wasn't so lucky… I felt bad for leaving her, but she told me to leave and find help." Bess said tears building in her eyes "Will I ever see Nancy again"

"You will if I have anything to say about it," Horatio said

Nancy Drew could only hope that Bess had gotten to safety, she had left a while back and Nancy knew nothing more about her friend.

The man returned to the room

"It's a shame your friend left when she did, now she won't get to meet the client and see what fun he has planned." He said

Nancy thought to herself that she didn't even want to know what his idea of fun was, either way she would find out. Nancy had tried to get out of her bonds earlier on, but had quickly discovered that wasn't going to happen any time soon.

Horatio Cain had found out that one of the sets of unknown fingerprints in the first discovered place belonged to Bess Marvin and chronicled her escape from her captors that occurred right before Nancy was moved, but Nancy hadn't been so lucky.

"If only there was a pattern to what these guys were doing, maybe we could find where they were before they moved again," Horatio thought aloud as he looked over a map marked with the two locations that they had found evidence to indicate that Nancy was there.

"They're heading for the coast… They want to take her out of the US," Horatio thought aloud. It was logical, but Horatio wasn't sure that was the answer.

"Horatio, Bess was able to give us an important clue, one of the men said something about making money off of their beauty."

"Illegal sex trade, they're going to sell her they already have a client… it makes sense, she's a beautiful young woman that anyone of their potential clients would pay a bundle for, especially if she has never been touched before." Horatio stated anger rising uncontrollably.

To Be Continued…