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, utterly powerless... it's

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

again, harder this time, desperation making my hands

head, looking around for

then I hear

at all that could help me

closing and locking somewhere in the distance before -

chest, and I freeze,

to say. What could I say to

the footsteps come closer,

door creaks

Before there he is....

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

into the room, his figure looming

as I pull my knees up to my chest, shrinking back

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

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

confused for

Calm down?!

just slapped me!" I state, the words falling out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out the second time

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

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

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

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

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

out for in total I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all

I was gone by now? Were people out looking

had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew

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 up with hope. This is seeming to go a little better than the first time around... at least he's

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

would have no chance out running or even

demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye level next as I swallow the lump in my

smiles slowly - reaching a hand up

that he had just slapped me with

feel myself tremble beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a

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