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

to let me go, but how will

at the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake.

turn my head, looking around for

I hear

all that could help me break

door closing and locking somewhere in the distance

stutters in my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears.

What could I

breath catches in my throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until they

door creaks

Before there he is....

can't get the words out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it

his figure looming in the

you've woke up... again!" He starts, as I pull my knees up to

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

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

for a

Calm down?!

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

was most definitely concussed, as I felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the stress

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you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front of

cuts me loose then I'll at least be free to find an escape... but I have to play my

was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk

been days by now for all I knew, especially with the

had I been passed out for in total I wonder? Between the first

people aware that I was gone by now?

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

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

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

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

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

he smiles slowly -

the same hand that he had just slapped me

his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for

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