Angel could feel her heart pounding in her chest as Alice's words echoed in the dark, oppressive space. The flicker of the dim light cast long, eerie shadows, and her trembling hands were still bleeding from the cuts she'd gotten earlier. She wanted to move, to run, but her body seemed frozen in fear, and Alice's voice dripped with cruel amusement. He knew she was trapped, both physically and mentally, and he was savouring her helplessness.
"Come here, bunny," Alice coaxed, his voice deceptively soft, yet filled with the menace that made her skin crawl. "You're making this harder on yourself, darling. We could have been done with this already."
