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 being

can't stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that if

restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no

turn my head,

I

could help

somewhere in the

stutters in my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears. It's him. Ashton.

don't know what to say. What could I

the

door creaks open

Before there he is....

to yell at him, cuss him out, but I can't get the words out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But

his figure looming

again!" He starts, as I pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking

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

Sofia," he says, his voice soft, almost too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now,

for a

Calm down?!

falling out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my

felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the stress

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just need 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 front of me, as I instantly nod at

least be free to find an escape... but I have to play my cards right

to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my head for a third time

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

had I been passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first

was gone by now? Were

Surely not when Emma knew

learn to trust me. We will work on it. The first step is untying you, ok?" He seems to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately

run or scream anymore... deal? Just let me show you around for a minute?" Ashton continues on, taking his time to round the side of the bed in which I was currently tied

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

down to face me at eye

p-promise..." I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching

same hand that he had just slapped me with

in the silent moment

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