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?

pain in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of

to let me go, but how will I do that if

harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid

turn my head, looking around

I hear

that could help me break

locking somewhere in the distance before -

heart stutters in my chest, and I freeze, straining

what to say. What could I say to make

as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they

creaks

Before there he is....

pulse 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

room, his figure looming in the

I pull my knees

a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't

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

confused for a split

Calm down?!

just slapped me!" I state, the words falling out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my

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

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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 in front of me, as I instantly nod at

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

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

It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me

in total I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all made me feel

I was gone by now?

that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know somethings wrong,

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

the side of the bed in which I was currently tied to. I only nod again, already knowing that it was in my best

have no chance out running or even fighting him back... I had to

to face me at

I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke

that he had just slapped me

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 add to his

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