title: Locked Inside
author:  Nancy Werlin 
description: "As she did in <i>The Killers Cousin</i>, Werlin offers a compelling thriller that will have readers turning pages."  <i>Booklist</i>
zlib_text: Locked
  
  In
  
  Locked In
  
  Bridie
  
  Huggler
  
    
  
  Copyright © Bridie Huggler 2019
  
  All rights reserved
  
  ISBN: 1700272160
  
  ISBN-13: 9781700272164
  
  This book is a work of fiction. All characters appearing in this work are
  fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely
  coincidental.
  
  >  **CHAPTER ONE**
  
  “BITCH!”
  
  He mouths the word repeatedly, his ice blue eyes staring unblinkingly on the
  inert body lying on the bed. The only indication that she’s alive is the rise
  and fall of her chest and even this is aided by a ventilator.
  
  His body shivers with the rage that is rising within him, causing spluttering
  sounds to emanate from the hole in his neck – a tracheotomy – as it gets
  clogged with phlegm, which his rapid breathing has shifted along his windpipe.
  Using a tissue, he wipes it clear and for a fleeting moment considers
  disconnecting her ventilator. But much as he wants to kill her, he wants more
  for her to suffer his terror. He wants her to know her torturer, he needs 