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

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

desperation making my hands shake. It's

my head, looking around for

then I hear

at all that could help

and locking somewhere in the

heart stutters in my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears. It's

What could I say to make him

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. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it feels hollow, like

his figure looming in

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

it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know

to a child. "You need to calm down now, I don't want to

blink, confused for

Calm down?!

you just slapped me!" I state, the words falling out in short pants, coming to terms with the

I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my

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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 carrot

be free to find an escape... but

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

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

passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first time

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

knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will

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 light up with hope. This is seeming to go a little better

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 only nod again, already knowing that it was

in both height and muscle, I would have no chance out

leaning down to face me at

he smiles slowly - reaching

same hand that he had just slapped me

feel myself tremble 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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