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?

sense of being completely, utterly powerless... it's

him to let me go, but how will I do that

again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid

turn my head, looking around

I

at all that could help me break

locking somewhere in the distance

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

say. What could I say to make him

my throat as the

door creaks open

Before there he is....

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

room, his figure looming in the

you've woke up... again!" He starts, as I pull my knees up to my

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

a child. "You

blink, confused for

Calm down?!

the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out the second time around -

I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach,

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

cuts me loose then I'll at 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

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

I wonder? Between the first time

gone by

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, won't

want 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 is seeming to go a little better than the first time around... at least he's going

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

chance

through his teeth, leaning down to face me at

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

same hand that he

silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that

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