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?

pain in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely,

to let me go, but how will I do

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

my head, looking around for

then I

that could help

door closing and locking somewhere in

heart stutters in my chest, and I freeze, straining

to say. What could I

throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer, until

door creaks open

Before there he is....

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

into the room, his figure looming

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

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

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

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out the second time

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

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about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of

to find an escape... but

was prepared to be violent and I

It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me

Between the first time and the second?

gone by now? Were people out

Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will know somethings wrong,

it. The first step is untying you, ok?" He seems to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair

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 that it was in my best interest to stay calm right

have no chance out

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

smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to

that he had just slapped me

allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second would add

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