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

here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how

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

turn my head,

then I

at all that could help

somewhere in

my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears. It's

know what to say. What could I

the footsteps come closer, nearer,

creaks open

Before there he is....

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

into the room, his figure looming

again!" He starts, as I pull my knees

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

his voice soft, almost too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I don't want

confused for a

Calm down?!

you just slapped me!" I state, the words falling out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out the second time around - it was

definitely concussed, as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of

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I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling

to find an escape... but

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

time outside? It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me tell how long

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

gone by

did they just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with

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

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 best interest to stay calm right

height and muscle, I would have no chance out running

teeth, leaning down to face me at eye level next as I

I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly

that he had just

bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second would add to his

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