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 completely, utterly powerless... it's

me go, but how will I

tug at the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid little

turn my head,

I

at all that could help me break

and locking somewhere

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

don't know what to say. What could I

throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they

door creaks open

Before there he is....

I can't get the words out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it

into the room, his figure looming

again!" He starts, as I pull my knees up to

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

says, his voice soft, almost too soft, like he's speaking to a

for a

Calm down?!

in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my

in the pit of my stomach, a reminder

us for the complete

untie you, how about that?"

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

was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting

all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me tell

Between the first time and the second? It all made

gone by now?

knew I was

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 to

taking his time to round the side of the bed in which I was currently

and muscle, I would have no chance out running or even fighting him back... I had to be

me at eye level next as

smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke

he had

to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that

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