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 overwhelming sense of being completely, utterly

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

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

turn my head, looking around for

I hear

all that could help me

closing and locking somewhere in the distance before

and I freeze, straining my

say. What could I say to

the footsteps come closer, nearer, until

door creaks

Before there he is....

out. Not yet. My voice is thick, suffocating with growing fear. "Ashton," I whisper, my voice

room, his figure looming in

as I pull my knees up

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

he's speaking to a child. "You need

confused for a split

Calm down?!

out in short pants, coming to terms with the reason for

the nausea sitting in the pit of my stomach, a reminder

for the complete experience all for free. The next chapter is

then I'll untie you, how about that?" Ashton tests, dangling the carrot of my freedom in front

to find an escape... but I have to play my

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

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 long

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

I was gone by

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

pocket, before retrieving a pair of scissors as my eyes immediately light up with hope. This is seeming to go

time to round the side of the bed in which I was

no chance out running or even fighting him back...

leaning down to face me at eye level next as

recite, and with that, he smiles slowly

that he had just slapped

in the silent moment for

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