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?
my wrists, the overwhelming sense of
stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will
again, harder this time, desperation making my hands
turn my head, looking
then I hear
could help me
door closing and locking somewhere in the
I freeze, straining my ears. It's him. Ashton. He's coming
could I say to make him see
throat as the footsteps come
door creaks
Before there he is....
yell at him, cuss him out, but I can't get the words out. Not yet. My voice is
his
starts, as I pull my knees up to my chest,
something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why, but it sends a shiver
says, his voice soft, almost too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I don't
blink, confused for
Calm down?!
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 the second time around - it was all
definitely concussed, as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit
for the complete experience all for free. The next chapter is eagerly
me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of
cuts me loose then I'll at least be free to find an escape... but I
be violent and I
knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me tell how long it
I wonder? Between
by now? Were people
when Emma knew
you to 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
I want you to promise me 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
would have no chance out running or
leaning down to face me at eye level next as I swallow the lump
he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my cheek
same hand that he had
in the silent moment for a few minutes
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