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,

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

time, desperation making my hands shake. It's

my head,

then I hear

all that could help me

locking somewhere in the distance before

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

don't know what to say. What could I say to make him

as the footsteps come

creaks open

Before there he is....

him, cuss him out, but I can't get the words out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear.

the room, his figure looming in the

woke up... again!" He starts, as I pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking

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

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

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

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 second time around - it was

I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of

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listen to me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom

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

was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my

have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me tell

long had I been passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all

I was gone by now? Were people out looking

just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know somethings

to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors

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 nod again, already knowing

and muscle, I would have no chance out running or even fighting him back...

me at eye level next as

I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand

he had just slapped me

I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment

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