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 powerless... it's all

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

restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake.

head, looking around for

I

at all that could

locking somewhere in the distance before -

in my chest, and I freeze, straining my

to say. What could

throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they

door creaks

Before there he is....

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

room, his figure looming in the

up... again!" He starts, as I pull

up into something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't

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

for

Calm down?!

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

pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the stress and

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need you to 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

at least be free to find an escape... but I have to play

proven already that he was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my head for a third

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

wonder? Between

that I was gone by now? Were people out

did they just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know somethings wrong, won't

pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my

you to promise me 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

have no chance out running or even fighting

to face me at eye level next as I swallow the

p-promise..." I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand

that he had

for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second would

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