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?

the overwhelming sense of being

him to let me go, but

again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's

my head, looking around for

I hear

that could help me

closing and locking somewhere in the distance

my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears.

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

breath catches in my throat as the footsteps

creaks open

Before there he is....

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,"

the room, his figure

He starts, as I pull my

curve up into something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why, but it sends a shiver crawling down

he's speaking to a child. "You

for a

Calm down?!

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

sitting in the pit of my

for the complete experience all for free.

how about that?"

to find an escape... but I have to play my cards

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

days by now for all I knew,

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

people aware that I was gone by now? Were people out

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

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

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 to. I only nod again, already knowing that it was in my best interest to stay

muscle, I would have no chance out running or even fighting him back... I

through his teeth, leaning down to face me at

slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my

he

could practically feel myself tremble beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second would

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