Shadows In Durango

Chapter 103

Chapter 103

*****Sofia's POV*****

I wake up to more pain.

It's sharp and bruising

a heavy throb that pulses from behind my eyes, spreading like wildfire throughout my head.

My whole body feels numb and sore, like I've been through something terribly violent...

For a long moment, I can't even remember where I am. The darkness presses in around me, wrapping itself around my chest and squeezing the breath from my lungs.

I blink back slowly, trying to push myself up, but... something's wrong. My wrists.

They're tied.

Wait... I've been here before...

I'm tied up, again.

I freeze.

A sickening weight settling in my stomach, heavy with the realisation of where I still was.

I struggle, my heart starting to hammer in my chest as I yank at the restraints, but the plastic digs deeper into my skin, and the pain only intensifies.

I gasp loudly, panic rising up fast, the world tilting around me as I thrash against the bed and start to scream hysterically.

I can't breathe. I can't think. My body trembles uncontrollably as the overwhelming feeling of being trapped presses down on me.

Everything was blurry after... after Ashton. Passing out. The car. The conversation. The slap...

I shudder, remembering the coldness in his eyes.... his face coming in to my mind like a crazed stalker.

I blink again, slowly this time in an attempt to calm my breathing, forcing myself to take in the room around me properly.

It's small. Barren. White walls that feel sterile and unwelcoming. A door that's slightly ajar, the faintest sliver of light spilling in from the hallway, but nothing else. No windows, no sounds from outside. Just suffocating silence. This is a nightmare.

I must be dreaming?

my wrists, the overwhelming sense of

him to let me go, but

desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid little plastic

my head, looking

then I hear

all that could help

locking somewhere in the

in my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears.

don't know what to say. What could I say

the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they

creaks open

Before there he is....

yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it feels hollow, like I'm barely here

steps into the room, his

starts, as I pull my knees up

twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why, but it sends a

soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out the second time around - it was

as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of

us for the complete experience all for free.

you to listen to me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in

me loose then I'll at least be free to

proven already that he was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my head for a third

outside? It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the

been passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all

people aware that I was gone by now? Were

town?! Surely not when Emma knew

you, ok?" He seems to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming to go a little better

taking his time to round the side of the bed in which I was currently tied

me in both height and muscle, I would have no chance out running

his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye level

I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke

that he had just slapped

touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second would add to his trust towards

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