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...

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

desperation making my hands

my head,

I hear

that could help

closing and locking somewhere in

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

know what to say. What could I say to

throat as the footsteps come closer,

door creaks

Before there he is....

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 fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice shaking. But it feels hollow, like I'm barely here at all, barely

into the room, his figure looming

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

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

he's speaking to a child. "You need to calm down now, I don't

blink, confused for a

Calm down?!

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

in the pit of my stomach, a reminder of all the stress and fear I had

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

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

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

by now for all I knew, especially with the lack of windows in the room to help me tell how

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

was gone by now? Were people out

knew I was supposed to

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...

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

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

to face me at eye level next as

that, he smiles slowly - reaching a hand

same hand that he had

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

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