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, utterly powerless... it's all

let me go, but how will I do

tug at the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping

turn my head, looking around for

then I hear

could help me break

and locking somewhere in the distance before -

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

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

in my throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they

door creaks open

Before there he is....

quickens. I want to scream, 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 here at all, barely

the room, his

I pull

And I don't

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

confused for a

Calm down?!

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

in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the stress and fear I had

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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

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

to be violent and

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

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

that I was gone by now? Were

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

learn to trust me. We will work on it. The first step is untying you, ok?" He seems to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light

want 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 I was currently tied to. I only nod again, already knowing that

me in both height and muscle, I would have no chance out running or even fighting him

He demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me at

with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my

he had

the silent moment for a few minutes longer

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