Ransom

I opened the letter, and pulled out the photos.

I flipped through the images, seeing my wife, gagged and tied up in a chair, yesterday's newspaper held up beside her, then a picture of her with a black eye, and then... Screaming while tied up in a chair, having got the photos mixed up slightly.

The note said 'One week, $1,000,000'.

I, obviously, was very distraught, but I couldn't gather the money in time, I had a cash flow problem.

At least, that's what I told her when they released her. She didn't need to know the truth about things.