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?

the pain in my wrists, the overwhelming sense of being completely,

stay here, I'll have to convince him to let me go, but how will I do that

this time, desperation making my hands shake. It's

turn my head,

I hear

at all that could help

and locking somewhere in

my chest, and I freeze, straining

What could I

in my throat as the footsteps come closer, nearer,

door creaks

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,

his figure looming

He starts, as I pull my knees up

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

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

confused for a

Calm down?!

with the reason for my thumping headache

sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of

for the complete

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

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

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

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

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

I was gone by now?

they just assume that I had left town?! Surely not when Emma knew I was supposed to stay with her... she will

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

let me show you around for a minute?" Ashton continues on, taking his time to round the side

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

to face me

that, he smiles slowly -

that he had just slapped

silent moment for a few minutes longer - just hoping that each second

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