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?

in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely, utterly

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

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

head, looking around

I

could help me

somewhere in the distance

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

to say. What could I say to

the footsteps come closer, nearer, until

creaks

Before there he is....

the words out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear.

room, his figure

pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking back from

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

speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now,

confused for a split

Calm down?!

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

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

us for the complete experience all

just need 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,

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

be violent and I

for all I knew, especially with the

in total I wonder? Between the

by

town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her...

back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming to go a little better than the first time around... at least he's going to cut me

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

no chance out running or even fighting

to face me at eye level next as I

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

he

silent moment for a few minutes longer -

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