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the back door slammed shut, Alberto knew this was very bad. These cops weren't going to take him to the police station like this; his fate was to be far darker. This was it - his years of paranoid thoughts and nightmares exploding in his face. The game was up.

CHAPTER TWELVE

DARK PARADISE

Hell can be heaven one minute and hell in the next. You live the fantasy, you live the dream, but one day you wake up. And that day you wake up you don't know where you will wake up, what sort of hell.

- Alberto

People come here and think it's a paradise for sure, but it becomes hell, really, really quickly.

- Andre

With his eyes covered, Alberto crouched in the car, scared and vulnerable-desperate trying to focus on every sag and dip, to keep track of where they were taking him. But it was futile. He quickly lost his bearings, and when they stopped, about 45 minutes later, he had a vague sense they were near Ubud - renowned as the peaceful, happy heart of Bali, ironic considering what he was about to experience.

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