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 too

I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will

making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid little

turn my head, looking

then I

that could help

somewhere in the distance

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

what to say. What could I say to

my throat as the footsteps come closer,

door creaks

Before there he is....

yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But

room, his figure looming

pull my knees up to my

curve up into something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why, but it sends a shiver crawling down

he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I don't

confused for a

Calm down?!

me!" I state, the words falling out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason

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

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just 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 freedom in front of me, as I instantly nod

be free to find an escape... but I

already that he was prepared to be violent and I couldn't

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

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

aware that I was gone by now?

when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know

untying you, ok?" He seems to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a

to round the side of the bed in which I was currently tied to. I only nod again, already

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

down to face me at

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

that he had just

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

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