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?

no... the pain in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely, utterly

stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me

harder this time, desperation making my

turn my head, looking around

then I

that could help

somewhere

freeze, straining my ears. It's him. Ashton. He's

to say. What could I say to make him see

catches in 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 whisper, my voice shaking. But it feels hollow, like I'm barely here

into the room, his figure looming in

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

it's twisted. Disturbing. And I

he says, his voice soft, almost too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now,

for a

Calm down?!

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

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

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I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the

I'll at least be free to

to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my head for a third time

it even still night time outside? It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me tell how

Between the first time and the second? It all made me

I was gone by now? Were people out

knew I was supposed to stay with

step is untying you, ok?" He seems to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair

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

no chance out running

me at eye level next as I swallow the lump

p-promise..." I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my cheek

he had just

could practically feel myself tremble beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes

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