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?

overwhelming sense of being completely, utterly powerless... it's

convince him to let me go, but how will

this time, desperation making my hands

head, looking around for

I hear

that could help

somewhere in the distance before -

I freeze,

what to say. What could I say to

the footsteps come closer, nearer, until

door creaks

Before there he is....

yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it feels hollow, like I'm barely here at

the room, his

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

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

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

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

coming to terms with the reason for my thumping headache and

pit of my stomach, a reminder

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you to listen 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, as I

then I'll at least be free to find an escape... but I have to play my cards

and I couldn't risk hitting my head for a

still night time outside? It could have been days by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me tell how

in total I wonder? Between the first time and the second? It all made me feel growingly

by now? Were people out looking

just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with

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

time to round the side of

muscle, I would have no chance out running or even

it!" He demands through his teeth, leaning down to face me

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

he had

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

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