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?

my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely,

can't stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will

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

turn my head, looking around

then I

all that could help

door closing and locking somewhere in

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

to say. What could I say to make him

catches in my throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer,

door creaks open

Before there he is....

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

steps into the room, his figure looming in the

He starts, as I pull my knees up to my chest,

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

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

for

Calm down?!

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

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

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you, how about that?" Ashton

be free to find an escape... but I have to

was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my

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

passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first time

gone by now?

town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know somethings

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

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 it was in my best interest to stay calm right now since I didn't want

I would have no chance out running or even fighting him back... I had to be

down to face me at eye level next as I swallow the

that, he smiles slowly - reaching a

that he had just slapped me with

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

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