Shadows In Durango

Chapter 53

*****Vincent's POV*****

"Is it enough?" Daryl questions me, as I glance over the crates filled with machinery and guns.

"Think so, I'll need to phone and check with my Dad." I grumble, knowing that I hated whenever I would have to contact him for anything.

If people thought I was bad, then he was much fucking worse to put it lightly!

Placing the phone to my ear and eyeing the men around us who were delivering the shipment, their faces grim and distant - ready to fight us to the death if the exchange was to go wrong at any point - I pause for him to pick up. "Vincent? Make it quick, I'm in the middle of something!" My father's delightful tone fills my ear as I grit my teeth to avoid cussing him out down the line due to his attitude alone.

"There's twelve filled crates, is that the normal amount for a ninety thousand exchange?" I speak quickly, wanting to rid myself of him sooner.

He seems to think on my words, before mumbling a quick 'sounds about right, yes' as I turn to give my guys the nod before my father continues to speak:

"Next one's due in a month, I'll need you to take those crates to Illinois by the end of next week, I'll have somebody meet you there. They'll pay double what we just did to buy them from us." He orders, as I feel my blood begin to boil. "I have school, do you forget that? Get somebody else to take them!" I seethe, knowing he would often make me run around and do his dirty work for him whenever he felt like it.

"You also have a nice big house and a decent life thanks to my money so shut the fuck up and get on with it! I don't want anybody else on this one, it's an important swap with important people and you need to make a good impression for the family! Get some of the men to drive the trucks to Illinois and meet them there on a flight. I don't want to hear you cry about it Vincent, don't make me fucking fly out to you myself!" He warns, his tone dangerous but I don't flinch. I reckon these days I could give the old man a run for his money in a fight... but not when I was younger. He used to terrify me before, but not anymore....

"How's Mom?" I mutter, choosing to ignore his threats completely, having not heard from my Mother in a few months now.

She was probably still acting like a whore around my father's men to impress them... I used to hate when she did that.

birthday." He retorts, evidently hating talking to me just

I'll see them on my birthday in a month - can't

removing the phone from my ear and hitting the

the money as the other punks count it for their own boss, I click on my phone to send Sofia

you back some dinner? We should be done here in

phone into my pocket and approaching Daryl who looks concentrated watching the main guy count out the

claim that we hadn't paid them enough, which nearly caused a fully blown shoot out, until Daryl would correct them and tell them to

do a deal with the younger Walker - but can't say much when it's your Father meeting us." One of the older guys grumble as the others around

gun shipments with, but I didn't know his real name. I only knew him as 'Keeper' whatever the fuck that nickname meant. "Happy?" I

with his hand for his men to help pack everything into our trucks for

I remember, as he

forged, obviously, but they had everything the cops needed to pass us through. Watching Keeper lug himself back towards me, already out of breath from the brief exercise he had embarked upon when running to the car and back, I shake my head at the state of him. The beer belly he had grown over the past couple of years did him

you all set kid." He hands me the envelope as I open it and pull the top certificate out, finding it to be

Great.

exchange a brief goodbye, with him telling me he will be in touch soon with details

I pull out my phone when feeling it vibrate, seeing that Sofia

a fifteen minute walk

Join us for the complete

How the fuck did they manage that without ID?! The bars in town were filled with old creepy drunks,

holler out, seeing him rush towards me thinking that something was wrong with

minute walk from my place? Sofia went out with Emma, did you know that they were going out drinking?" I question him accusingly watching him glare back