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?

in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely,

I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that

tug at the restraints again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping these stupid

turn my head, looking around for

then I hear

that could

somewhere in the distance before

and I freeze, straining my

to say. What could

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

creaks

Before there he is....

scream, to yell at him, cuss him out, but I can't get the words out. Not yet. My voice is

the room, his figure looming

pull my

smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why, but

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

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

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

in the pit of my stomach, a reminder

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just need you to listen to me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests,

to find an escape... but

to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting

still night time outside? It could have been days by now for all I knew,

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

people aware that I was gone by now?

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

to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming to

I want you to promise 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

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

face me at eye level

I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching

same hand that he had just slapped me with

allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer -

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