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, utterly

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

my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping

turn my head, looking

then I

could help me break

closing and locking somewhere in

I freeze, straining my ears. It's him. Ashton.

What could I say to make him

catches in my throat as the footsteps

creaks

Before there he is....

voice is thick,

into the room, his figure looming in the

as I pull my knees

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

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

for

Calm down?!

short pants, coming to terms with the

felt the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach,

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

free to find an escape... but I have to play my

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

knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help

for in total I wonder? Between the first

I was gone by now?

Surely not when Emma knew I

work on it. 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 eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming to go a little better than the first time around... at least he's going to cut me out

the side of the bed in which I was currently tied to. I only nod again, already

both height and muscle, I would have no chance

his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye level next

I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke

that he had just slapped me with

touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer

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