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?

no... the pain in my wrists, the overwhelming sense

stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me

the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake.

head, looking around

I

that could help me

somewhere in the distance before -

in my chest, and I freeze,

what to say. What could I say

catches in my throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until

creaks

Before there he is....

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 it feels hollow, like I'm

his figure looming in the

starts, as I pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking back from

smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I

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

blink, confused for

Calm down?!

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

was most definitely concussed, as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my

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down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front of me, as

to find an

and I couldn't risk hitting my head for

now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in

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

I was gone by now? Were people

not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know

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 light up with hope. This is seeming to go a little

you around for a minute?" Ashton continues on, taking his time to round the side of the bed in which I was currently tied to. I only nod again, already knowing that it was in my

muscle, I would have no chance

it!" He demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye level next as I swallow the lump in my

p-promise..." I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my cheek

hand that he

beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each

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