Rebecca lay on the bed, worried and scared.
It wasn't fair. It just wasn't. She was just doing her job and inspecting the houses on her list. This one was supposed to be empty.
She'd just come waltzing up to the door, unlocked it and walked in to be confronted by a group of kids with very large guns, all pointing at her.
She'd apologised, damn it. They could have let her go, but nooo.
"Sorry woman, you've seen too much," she was told, and they'd dragged her up here, tied her up and dumped her on the bed. And that thug had complained that she talked too much when she was only trying to make them let her go, and he'd tied that pillow slip over her head to muffle her voice.
They'd told her not to worry, as they'd drop a line to someone to come and rescue her, but first they had a little job they had to do.
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The Homeland Security team had gathered and were preparing to move in. They'd had a tip off about this bunch and were now determined to lower the boom. And they had an extra, as an unknown woman had been seen entering the premises half an hour earlier.
The nod was given, and doors and windows were suddenly flattened, and flash-bangs were active and a little group of would be terrorists were lying stunned on the floor.
"The woman's not here. Where's the woman?" snarled the lieutenant.
"The estate agent?" asked one prisoner. "We didn't hurt her. We just tied her up and tossed her into one on the bedrooms."
"Estate agent?" quizzed the lieutenant.
"She came to inspect the house for a tenant, she said. We didn't want her running around blabbing about us so we just tied her up for the time being. We would have called the cops to release her after we've gone."
"Lovely," muttered the lieutenant. "An innocent bystander. Just what I need. Mike, why don't you and Ralph check over the top floor. From the count we've got everyone. But it's nice to check."
"OK, boss," came the drawled reply, "but what do we do about the woman."
"Check that she's healthy and breathing and leave her there where she's not in our road. We'll take this lot and drop a dime to the cops and they can come and do a rescue. They're good at that. Stay up there and keep an eye out the window until I tell you we're ready to leave."
Mike grinned and headed up the stairs with Ralph. They noted Rebecca on the bed in the first room and quickly checked the rest of the floor before returning to where she lay.
Rebecca heard someone come into the room and tried to talk, frustrated that her voice was muffled by the pillowcase. She wriggled, hoping someone would now untie her.
Mike looked thoughtfully at the tied young woman. "Very nice," he thought. Her wriggling on the bed had caused her dress to ride up, revealing a pretty pair of lacy red panties.