Shadows In Durango

Chapter 98

*****Sofia's POV*****

With my phone clutched tightly in my hand, displaying only thirty percent battery, I quickly google to see if any cafes in town were still open - where I could charge up before making my next move. Reaching up, I wipe at my wet cheek, before the search loads and I find one cafe nearby that closes at ten. Great, that gives me an hour and a half to figure out where to go from here...

I couldn't process what had happened back there, as every ounce of my body told me just to get up and run out of there before my father could show up - and so that's exactly what I did.

I kicked off my heels, changed in to a comfier tracksuit, jammed what I could in to my bag - including some cash - and left.

Vincent had been organising sneaky deals behind my back. Arranging a possible marriage between us without even having the decency to tell me about it!

He should have told me from the very beginning that he was even planning to contact my father. Sure, I wouldn't have liked the idea, but I trusted him enough to hear his reasons out.

It was an arranged marriage, just like the first time around - all done completely behind my back and against my will!

It was wrong...

The whole thing was wrong!

This explained a whole lot though, why Daryl had been so uptight and shitty with me, since he probably knew about it and didn't like the idea of us marrying himself - not that I had any say in it though!

But then again if Daryl really liked me like he claimed he did, then he would have told me about it instead of throwing it in my face at dinner just to be spiteful!

As for Vincent, I knew something had been keeping him on edge lately, and this must have been it.

His father was working with mine, and for how long, I didn't know? I couldn't trust any of them, not now, since the whole dinner could have been a complete set up for all I know!

But one solid fact remained, and that was that I couldn't go back to my father.

Not now, not ever.

I quicken my pace as I head down the dimly lit street, each step feeling heavier with the weight of everything I had just learned.

The cool night air bites down at my skin, but it does nothing to calm the storm swirling from inside me.

How could Vincent have done this to me? How could he keep something so huge from me? Especially after I just admitted to liking him only yesterday!

had the right to discuss any kind of deal with my father behind my

hit my chest. Vincent, one of the few people I thought I could finally trust after everything that had happened to me, had gone behind my back and made decisions about my life without even asking

himself - the guilt, the desperation in his eyes. He'd been trying to manage the

angrily. I can't let myself break down now. I need to keep moving. I need

comes into view, and relief washes

next move is.

air inside hitting me instantly, as I'm greeted by the smell of fresh coffee and the soft hum of quiet conversations from the few people still

was peaceful in here, a world away from the

to Vincent's house. Not after what just happened. I can't trust him, and I definitely can't trust his family

down my spine. The idea that he was still pulling strings, trying to control my life from the shadows, makes my skin crawl. I thought I'd escaped him. I thought that I was

me than what he had ever been before, putting ties together through the use

the hell had I managed to get

up with an incoming call from

them. I stare at it for a moment, my stomach

Not right now.

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waitress appears, snapping me from staring down at my buzzing phone, as

y-yeah... a hot chocolate please?" I request off the top of my head, not wanting to be

up!" She smiles, taking a second longer to eye me over, knowing that something was wrong but choosing to keep quiet on it -

open up my maps app, searching for hotels or

don't have a plan, and I feel like I'm barely holding it together, but I

can't stay here in town forever now which was the sad

I can afford. I don't have money to splurge anymore, not with my future being

message pops up at the top of my screen, one from Emma, as my

promise! That whole thing was

words, saddened that I even felt on

she had been a great friend who had kept so many secrets for me so far, right? She hadn't told anybody about

of this had

place my phone down to stare out of the window, watching the cars

of the streetlights blurs as my

alone, so lost on what

and the bell above it rings softly, pulling me from my