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 being completely, utterly
stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that if he
this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid
turn my head, looking around for
I hear
all that could help me
closing and locking somewhere in the distance before
and I freeze, straining my
say. What could I say to
the footsteps come closer, nearer, until
door creaks
Before there he is....
out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice
room, his figure looming in
as I pull my knees up
up into something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why,
he's speaking to a child. "You need
confused for a split
Calm down?!
out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for
the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder
for the complete experience all for free. The next chapter is
then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front
to find an escape... but I have to play my
violent and I couldn't risk hitting my head for a third
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 long
been passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all made me
I was gone by
had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to
pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming to go
time to round the side of the bed in which I was
no chance out running or even fighting him back...
leaning down to face me at eye level next as
recite, and with that, he smiles slowly
that he had just slapped
in the silent moment for
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