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?

sense of

here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that if he isn't

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

turn my head, looking

then I

all that could

closing and locking somewhere in the distance

freeze, straining my ears. It's

don't know what to say. What could I say to make him

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

creaks

Before there he is....

My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it

into the room, his figure looming

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

Disturbing. And I don't know why, but it sends

he's speaking to a child. "You need

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

short pants, coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and for my passing out

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

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to me! Stop freaking out! If you calm down, then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front of me,

cuts me loose then I'll at least be free to find an escape... but

was prepared to be violent and I couldn't risk hitting my

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

out for in total I wonder? Between the

by

had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay

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 first time around...

Ashton continues on, taking his time to round the side of the

height and muscle, I would have no chance out running or even

his teeth, leaning down to face me at eye

recite, and with that, he smiles slowly - reaching

same hand that he had

the silent moment for a

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