Gemma was traveling with her parents from London to Vietnam. On a layover in Bangkok, she went to a coffee stand in the airport.
"Let me buy it," you said. Your voice was low and soft, like it was meant only for me, and your accent was strange.
Ty is in his mid-20s, too old to be hanging out with a 16-year old girl.
You must have thought of everything: a ticket, a new passport, our route through, how to get past security. Was it the most carefully planned steal ever, or just luck?
He steals her away to a desert in Australia.
"Why?" I whispered.
"I had to take you."
Written as a letter to her captor, Gemma describes her experience.
So I wrote the only words I could think of: imprisoned, confined, detained, constrained, incarcerated, locked up, interned, sent down, abducted, kidnapped, taken, forced, shoved, hurt, stolen...
Stolen is a beautiful, frightening story.
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars
*language, sexual inference, drug reference, prostitution
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