I come home and put down my keys and bag, and someone puts a knife to my throat.
"Don't move," she says.
"I won't," I whisper.
My hands start shaking. My knees do too.
"Walk forwards," she says. "Walk over to the table."
"Okay," I say, and do, carefully. I'm careful because of the knife.
"Take off your trousers," she says. "And lie down."
I'm in work clothes, a suit and heels. Fitted trousers and high, strappy, fiddly heels. I can't get these trousers off over these heels, and I know I can't.
"I can't," I say.
My hands are still trembling.
"Lie down then," she says. "Lie on your front. Put your hands behind your back."
I do. I bend at the waist so my feet are on the floor, but the rest of me is on the table. She keeps holding the knife against my neck, and while she does, she cuffs my wrists with her other hand. She has metal handcuffs, and she clicks them closed, quickly.
Then she says, "Lift up your feet behind you. One at a time."
I do. I lift up one foot, bending my leg at the knee, so my shoe is up by my ass. She reaches down, and unbuckles that shoe. She takes it off, and drops it on the floor, and then does the same for the other.