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 pain in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being

can't stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that

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

head,

I hear

all that could help me break

locking somewhere in

freeze, straining my ears. It's him. Ashton. He's coming

what to say. What could I say

the footsteps

creaks open

Before there he is....

voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it feels hollow, like I'm barely here

into the room, his figure looming

He starts, as I pull my knees up

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

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

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

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

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

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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...

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

for all I knew, especially with the lack of

for in total I wonder? Between the first time and

gone by now?

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

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 go a little better than the first time around... at

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

height and muscle, I would have no chance out running or even fighting

leaning down to face me at eye level next as I swallow the lump in

he smiles slowly -

same hand that he had

could practically feel myself tremble beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes

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