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?

overwhelming sense of being

convince him to let me go, but how will I do

at the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands

my head, looking

I

that could help me break

locking somewhere in

my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears.

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

throat as the

creaks open

Before there he is....

quickens. I want to scream, 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 it feels hollow,

room, his figure looming in

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

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

he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I

confused for a

Calm down?!

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

as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach,

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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

then I'll at least be free to find an escape... but I have to play my cards

was prepared to be violent and I couldn't

by now for all I knew,

total I wonder? Between the

gone by

not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with

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 better

me show you around for a minute?" Ashton continues on, taking his time to round the side of the bed in which I

chance out running or

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

and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a

hand that he had just slapped

allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a

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