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Prologue
 
     
    I think I’ve been drugged.  A throaty groan escapes my lips and it grates hard against the roof of my mouth.  Why am I so dry?  I run a hand gently over my brow.  I’ve got a banging headache too and I can’t think of a good reason to explain that either.  Last night was fairly quite – no drinking, no riotous party that would leave me feeling so hung over.
    Thinking about it though, I can’t really remember last night at all.  That can’t be right, can it?
    I feel confused too, muzzy and slightly sick.  I’ve no recollection, no memory at all of what’s happened or what I’ve been doing.  The last thing I remember was eating dinner with Anton.  Could something have disagreed with me, could I be ill? 
    Then a wild thought enters my head – a ridiculous thought but there it is, large and ugly, niggling away.  Perhaps something has been done to me, in the middle of the night as I slept.  Perhaps I’ve been deliberately drugged and rendered helpless for some reason – a reason I won’t like. 
    I cy shivers of fear dance over my skin and I almost choke as I inhale.  My mouth is like a desert, I need a drink.  Drugged then, I decide terrified.
    I’d suspected all along this was a bad idea.  Spending the weekend at a strange house with a man neither of us knew particularly well.   
    Jane , where was she? 
    W e’d come to this place together and fuck knows how long I’d been lying here so why hadn’t she come to find me and woken me up? 
    Perhaps she couldn’t wake me up, perhaps she was like me.  Whatever had happened could only have been down to Anton – tall, dark, and wickedly handsome Anton.  There is no one else here, well, that is if you don’t count his butler, Addams.
    But whatever ’s going on, whatever’s happened to me, I’m safe for the moment and in bed, in my own room. Running tentative fingers down my body I can feel the silk nightie I’d packed only the day before. 
    I was still wearing it - r elief! 
    So whatever has happened it can’t have been anything too dreadful – too intimate – can it? I bite my lip.  I need to see Anton.  I need him to explain this to me. I shuffle my body in an effort to rise then I feel it and scream out with shock.
    As I move a deep, intense pain sears between my thighs and there’s a burning in my neck.  Pulling back the bedcovers to look, I see the patch of dried blood on my pillow.
 

Chapter 1
 
    Tw enty four hours earlier
 
    I need a new job.  I need something with prospects, something exciting.  Well actually, if I’m honest, I need something to get me away from Jason.   My old job was fine while we had a thing going but now that we don’t – it’s torture.
    You see I’d liked Jason.  He was – well still is, handsome, talented, funny and life was never dull with him in it.  Working as we do in that huge office block we’d meet up all the time.  Me working in the café on the ground floor and him working for an accountancy firm on the sixteenth meant we could do coffee, lunch and generally hang out together at every opportunity.
    So what went wrong?  Well I suppose it must have been me, me and my high ideals.  Jason wanted a different sort of relationship and I wanted us to take our time.  To be blunt, Jason wanted sex and I didn’t.  Well I did, I just didn’t want to rush things.  I’m the sort of girl who needs to be sure.  I need to know that the man I give my virginity to is my Mr. Right.  And Jason, well I really had no idea – we just hadn’t given it long enough.
    But Jason was having none of it - s o we split.  We both cried and I think we probably both regretted it.  But after a while I realised I’d been right and so now I’ve decided I need a change.
    Jane, my best friend and flat mate, said she had just the thing to cheer me up.  Oh, not a job, that was far too practical.  No, what Jane had was an invitation to a party – a house party that would last the