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?

wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely, utterly powerless... it's all too

stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that if

my hands shake. It's useless. There's

head, looking around

I hear

at all that could help me break

and locking somewhere in the distance before

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

don't know what to say. What could I say

catches in my throat as the

creaks open

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 fear.

room, his figure looming in

I pull

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

too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You

confused for a

Calm down?!

short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out the second time

sitting in the pit of my stomach, a

Join us for the complete experience

you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front of me, as I instantly nod at the

then I'll at least be free to find an escape... but I have to play my cards right

and I couldn't risk hitting my head for a third time

all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in

in total I wonder? Between the first time

I was gone by now? Were people out looking

I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew

learn to trust me. We will 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

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

in both height and muscle, I would have no chance out running or even fighting him back...

He demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye level

with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my

he had just slapped me with

as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second would add

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