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?

pain in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely, utterly powerless... it's all

me go, but how will I do that if he

restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my

turn my head, looking

then I hear

could help me

somewhere in the

stutters in my chest, and I freeze,

what to say. What could I say to

as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until

door creaks open

Before there he is....

My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it feels

his figure

starts, as I pull my knees up to my

up into something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why,

too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I

for a split

Calm down?!

you just 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

felt the nausea sitting in the pit

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need you to listen to me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about

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

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

been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in

I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all made me feel

that I was gone by now? Were people out looking for

they just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know somethings wrong,

hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a

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 only nod again, already knowing that it was in

would have no chance out running or

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

with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up

hand that he had just slapped me with

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

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