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 being

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

this time, desperation making my hands

my head, looking around

I

all that could

locking somewhere

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

what to say. What could I say to make him see

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

door creaks

Before there he is....

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

the room, his

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

lips curve up into something resembling a smile, but it's twisted. Disturbing. And I don't know why, but it sends a shiver crawling down my

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

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache

in the pit of my stomach,

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

I'll at least be free to find an

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

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

total I wonder? Between the first time

gone by now? Were people out

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

to reach his hand in to his back pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as

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

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

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

he smiles slowly - reaching a hand up to stroke my

hand that he

his touch as I allowed for him to bask in the silent moment

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