A crashing noise jarred her back to the present. She rushed downstairs only to catch two masked men loading up the new sofa she had ordered last week with the insurance money. She turned to run back upstairs and phone the police. Then they turned. They dropped the sofa. One grabbed her arms. The other pushed her to the floor. The one with a black mask slapped her face and her nose started bleeding. The blue-masked one leaned down by her ear and told her to take her business back where it belonged or she would pay the consequences. How odd? He had an Italian accent? Then the black-masked one took the knife and sliced down her arm. Elizabeth then passed out.
*** Elizabeth vaguely heard a frantic voice call her name. Then carefully she was taken to the hospital.
Elizabeth woke up and looked around the room. Then she heard voices in the hall.
