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!

to discuss any kind of deal with my father behind my back, without me knowing about

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

walk, I think back to the look on his face when he was trying to explain himself - the guilt,

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

the cafe sign comes into view, and relief washes

phone and to figure out what my next move is. The last thing I want

I'm greeted by the smell of fresh coffee and the soft hum of quiet

thankful that it was peaceful in here, a world away from the chaos

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

my life from the shadows, makes my skin

closer to me than what he had ever been before, putting ties together

managed to get myself stuck

buzzes on the table, the screen lighting up with an

of them. I stare at it for a moment, my stomach twisting. I don't want to read them, not yet. I can't handle hearing any

Not right now.

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appears, snapping me

please?" I request off the top of my head, not wanting to be rude and seem as though I was only in to use their electricity (which technically, I

smiles, taking a second longer to eye me over, knowing that something was wrong

and I open up my maps

like I'm barely holding

in town forever now which was the sad truth of it...

I don't have money to splurge anymore,

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

That whole thing was messed up and you have my support Sof! Please answer and talk to me,

words, saddened that I even felt on edge

friend who had kept so many secrets for me so far, right? She hadn't told anybody about Ashton showing up

of this had

window, watching the cars pass by on

blurs as my eyes

so alone, so lost on what

door to the cafe opens, and the bell above it rings softly,