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?

the overwhelming sense of being completely, utterly powerless... it's all too

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

time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid little plastic

turn my head, looking

then I

all that could help me break

door closing and locking somewhere in the

in my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears. It's him. Ashton. He's coming

What could

as the footsteps come closer,

door creaks open

Before there he is....

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

steps into the room, his figure looming in

He starts, as I pull my knees up to

it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why, but

too soft, like he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I

confused for a split

Calm down?!

you 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

concussed, as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the stress and fear I had

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me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front of me, as I instantly nod at

cuts me loose then I'll at least be free to find an escape... but I have to

be violent and I

night time outside? It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially

been passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all made me feel growingly

people aware that I was gone by

just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with

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

to round the side of the bed in which

chance out running

face me at eye

smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my cheek

that he had just slapped me

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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