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?

the overwhelming sense of being completely,

me go, but how

desperation making my hands

head, looking

I hear

could help me

and locking somewhere

in my chest, and I freeze, straining my

could I say to make him see

as the footsteps come

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,

his figure looming

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

it's twisted. Disturbing. And I

says, his voice soft, almost too soft, like he's speaking to a

confused for a

Calm down?!

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

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

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then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests,

loose then I'll at least be free to find

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

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

passed out for in total I wonder? Between

people aware that I was gone by now? Were people

did they just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I

before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming

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

chance out

leaning down to face me at eye level

with that, he smiles slowly

hand that he had

touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just

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