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

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

time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's

my head,

I

could help

locking somewhere in

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

what to say. What could I say to make him see

as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they

creaks

Before there he is....

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

the room, his figure looming in

I pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking back from

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

too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I don't want to hurt you

confused for a

Calm down?!

I state, the words falling out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing

the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the

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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 of my freedom in

free to find an escape... but

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

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

for in total I wonder? Between the first time and

that I was gone by now? Were people out looking

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

reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as

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 my best

chance out running or even fighting him

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

p-promise..." I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a

the same hand that he had just slapped me

tremble beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for

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