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?

in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being

here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that if he

the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's

my head, looking

I hear

all that could help

door closing and locking somewhere in the

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

to say. What could I

throat as the footsteps come closer,

creaks open

Before there he is....

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,

into the room, his

again!" He starts, as I pull

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

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

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out the second time around

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

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I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom

me loose then I'll at least be free to find an

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

It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of

long had I been passed out for in total I wonder? Between

that I was gone by

had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she

you, ok?" He seems to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming to go a little better than the first time around... at least he's going to cut

his time to round the side of the bed in which I was currently tied

both height and muscle, I would have no chance out running or

me at eye level next as I swallow the

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

he had just slapped

tremble beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second would

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