Same time another event took place not so far from her old neighborhood.

Two silent dark figures entered the room.

They were the same dark skinned well built men that surprised and drugged her before in this cold basement.

Their clothes were still dirty from their work outside.

Their faces were dark and implacable.

She looked the staff that they carried in their hairy rough hands.

One of them with thin black rope's in his muscular hand approached her slowly.

-Behave yourself girl and maybe your friend will live ... '' he said her with a a deep , calm voice.

The other one held a long knife dirty and rusty in his left hand ready for use if needed.

The young woman felt again helpless like little girl away from her home.

Not humans beasts for sure ! "she thought angrily and closed her eyes for a moment .

Her beauteous blue eyes became wet again as she heard his heavy steps approaching her again ...

How did the things became so wrong ? " she thought.

They just wanted to search the warehouses in the harbour with her partner Richard.

A client suspected that some kind of illegal activity was taking place there.

Perhaps stolen items they thought in the beginning.
But the police didn't have warrant for this.
They weren't cups although.
They were private investigators !

Well in fact she was his girlfriend .
He didn't have the money for an assistant.
So she helped him at times.

She was photographer and in the process to gain money for her own studio.

And the adrenaline that this job promise was irresistible for her then.

But they never expected that they weren't just thiefs but part of a large human trafficking organisation.

They had captured Richard and after her ...
They also took her coat,cell phone,shoes and her camera !

Animals ! " she thought again.

She turned her head trying to hide her hot tears ,which ran from her cheeks now.
She could feel the cold grey eyes of her captors upon her.

Her soft dainty soles in her feet was still hurt as she touched them.
She closed her eyes trying to escape this memory.

They laid her in a mattress the first night that they caught her.

They made her change clothes and burnt them.
They tried to get read of anything from her past life and destroyed any possible evidence.
They tried to make her understand also that she wasn't a person anymore ...she was an object for them now.

They gave her a dirty with many black spoils yellow dress.
This dress was obviously used before in another victim.

She was horrified but not willing to surrender totally.

She will fight back ! She will not let them touching her again !

She resisted fiercely kicking and scratching like wild cat until four of them tied her wrists behind her and started to take off her socks also.

They gagged her for the first time.

One of the men with an object like a cane started to heat her bare soles.

She whimpered from pain.

She had never experienced a sharp pain like that before.

The strokes are usually aimed at the archers of her feet and repeated dozen of times until she stopped moving.

That they wanted to see.

She gave up inside her and hid her tearful face in her long brown hair.

They stopped.
They knew what they did and they will do it again if needed.

Such a monsters she thought when she realised that she was alone again.

They were standing above her again now !

The man hand ran through her long silky hair and pushed them away from her face.

She felt a cold chill on her lean body .

She didn't dare to look into his eyes...

He came to take her.

What i can do ? '' she thought feeling the desperation inside her growing even more.

-Please ...don't hurt ... us ''... she whispered softly with her voice trembling , ..." i am ... "
But the men listening no more from her words.

They grabbed her hands and shoulders and laid her on the cold floor.

She didn't resisted.

She just kept her eye's closed and waited this awful nightmare to finish.

Perhaps they maybe just wanted to tied up her hands.

Her hands was already bruised from a previous struggle with them.
I don't have any choice " , she kept telling to herself.

Where he was now ?

They harmed him ? He was alive ?

Her thoughts were buzzing in her mind as one men tied her pale white wrists behind her back.

She was about to ask something this horrible man but the he didn't let her.
With a quick movie without giving her time to scream he gagged her with a white cloth.

The other man shorter than his companion was holding her tightly from both of her ankles.

But they didn't hurt her.
She was precious.

Suddenly a third man entered and unrolled a large furry carpet on the floor.

The carpet was brown in colour and at some parts discoloured.

The men started talking in a strange for her language.

It was russian or serbian she didn't knew or understood a word of it.

-This will make the things easier ...he told with a mean smile the taller of the gang.

-Just make sure that she will be gagged when they come to inspect our ship", he added with such a casual disregard.

"This is probably our last job in US" he added with a wry smile.

"Soon or later the police will come for us." an other one added.

-"In the end as i have predicted we have to transfer our base and activities again in Europe"...

They didn't lose more time now.

What they are planning to do with me ? ! " she thought and her pumped heart beat even faster.

They started to wrap her inside this carpet !

She started whimpered.

What they are doing ? They are crazy after all ?

They roll her as tightly they could in the carpet.
She wouldn't able to move at all after that for sure.

In the moment that they finished only her tender white soles was still visible and perhaps few of her hair.

So they were planning to sell her !
But where ?
They tried to take her out of the states in a cargo ship ?

She whimpered again desperately and tried free her hands at least.

She started to sweat from the agony and effort.

She felt so helpless now ...it was a nightmare ?

Her darkest hour came in her life this night.

The rope was too tight to slip her wrists through.

One of them then picked her up in a firefighter hold and took her further inside the dark corridors of the warehouse buildings.

She saw the ground pass under her as the man carried her across the corridor.

Fear and exhaustion made her numb now.
Her body jostled as the man opened one last door.

Now she understood that at least some of the many disappearing s which the police  charged only to one serial killer was in fact the work of this gang .

Natalia wasn't the first ...
And perhaps not the last.