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?

sense of being

to convince him to let me go, but

at the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake.

head, looking

then I hear

that could help me break

somewhere

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

what to say. What could I say to make him see

catches in my throat as the footsteps

creaks

Before there he is....

yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my

his figure

as I pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking back

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

his voice soft, almost too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need

confused for

Calm down?!

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 all

I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my

for the complete experience

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

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

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

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

Between the first

I was gone by now? Were people out

Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know

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

first I want you to promise me that you won't try to run or scream anymore... 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

in both height and muscle, I would have no chance

demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye level next as I swallow the lump in

smiles slowly

that he

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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