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, utterly powerless... it's all

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

again, harder this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's useless. There's no escaping

head, looking around for

I hear

could

locking somewhere in the distance before

my chest, and I freeze,

know what to say. What could

as the footsteps come

creaks open

Before there he is....

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

his

again!" He starts, as I pull my knees

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

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

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 my passing out the second time around - it was

in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the stress

continues. Join us for the

untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front

be free to

already that he was prepared to be violent and

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

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

people aware that I was gone by now? Were people out looking for

town?! Surely not when Emma knew I

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...

show you around for a minute?" Ashton continues on, taking his time to round the side of the bed in which I

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

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

p-promise..." I recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching a

same hand that he had just slapped

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

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