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 being completely, utterly
stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I
desperation making my hands shake. It's useless.
head, looking
then I hear
could help me break
closing and locking somewhere in the distance before -
stutters in my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears.
to say. What could I say
breath catches in my throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they
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 thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking.
steps into the room, his figure looming in
up... again!" He starts, as I pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking back
And I don't know why, but
soft, like he's speaking to a
for a
Calm down?!
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
concussed, as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a
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to me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about
I'll at least be free to find an
had proven already that he was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting
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
for in total I wonder? Between the first time
aware that I was gone by now? Were people
knew I was supposed to stay with her...
to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair
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
me in both height and muscle, I would have no chance out running or
it!" He demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye
p-promise..." I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly -
that he had just slapped me with
him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second
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