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 completely, utterly powerless... it's all too

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

time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping

head, looking around

then I hear

could help

door closing and locking somewhere in

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

could I say to make him

catches in my throat as the footsteps come closer,

door creaks open

Before there he is....

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

his figure

I pull

curve up into something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't

to a child. "You need to calm down now, I don't want

for a split

Calm down?!

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

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

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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

cuts me loose then I'll at least be free to find an escape...

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

even still night time outside? It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially

out for in total I wonder? Between

was gone by now?

not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know somethings wrong, won't

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

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

chance out running or even fighting

down to face me at eye level next as I

smiles slowly - reaching

he

bask in the silent moment

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