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,

let me go, but how

desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's

my head, looking around

I

at all that could help me break

locking somewhere in

stutters in my chest, and I freeze, straining my ears. It's him. Ashton.

know what to say. What could I

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

door creaks open

Before there he is....

words out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper,

the room, his figure looming in

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

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

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

for

Calm down?!

out in short pants, coming to terms with the

nausea sitting in the pit of my

us for the complete experience all for free. The next chapter is eagerly waiting for

how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of

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

had proven already that he was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my head

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

I wonder? Between the

I was gone by now? Were people

I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I

want you to learn to trust me. We will 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

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 only nod again, already

in both height and muscle, I would have no chance out running or even fighting him back...

He demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye

and with that, he smiles slowly

the same hand that he

practically feel myself tremble beneath his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment for a few minutes longer -

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255