Shadows In Durango

Chapter 111

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

"Would you just calm down for a minute?!" Reid bargains, as I launch another glass off of the wall in my office, smashing it in to a million tiny pieces.

"How is there no sign of her in any hospitals?! Where the fuck is she then? Where has he taken her?!" I rage, not liking the update that my father had brought back to me an hour after he left.

"Vincent you won't be able to find her in this state!" My father deadpans next, as I feel myself losing more and more patience as time stretches on.

I just watched her pass out on a sidewalk before being hauled in to the back of a random guys car. How did they expect me to remain calm? This was all my own fucking fault!

Any sadistic maniac could have her right now for all we know and all because I fucked up and kept secrets from her!

"Hey?" We all turn to find Emma poking her head around my office door, before her tired eyes grow wide at the destruction I had caused in here.

It looked as though a tornado had hit the office... but I needed an outlet for my anger. It was either this, or I would go out and find Daryl to beat the shit out of him instead... and so they should be glad that I chose this option! "Your silly mother keeps fucking calling me! Let me go see what she wants, I told her to stay away from us today." My father mutters, eyeing another incoming call on his phone with a hard expression.

She was the last person I needed to see right now! I feared that if she got in my way today, I wouldn't hesitate to strangle the air right out of her...

Watching him leave, I reach up to tug at my hair, pacing back and forth with the shards crunching beneath my feet.

This whole thing was soul destroying! There must be something else? Something we are all missing? She can't just vanish with a stranger without a trace!

"What I don't understand is why she even stopped to talk to him? It's as though she recognised him..." Reid gives me his input, as Emma enters fully to join us now - her curiosity piqued.

"My father seems to think that she just felt dizzy or something and asked him for help... before she collapsed." I state, continuing to pace with my brows pulling together in deep thought.

code to crack, as

you mean she collapsed?! What did I miss? Did you find something?!" Emma panics, reminding us both

spoke about this in front of her. She could do

was Sofia walking, the other was at a cafe and the last was her walking not far from your place before a guy in a silver car pulls up..."

rambles, her

it anyway. But the worst part is, Sofia seems to take a dizzy turn

confirms her suspicions as Reid only nods which causes for her to gasp

out loud all over again was hurtful, tugging at my heart strings since Sofia could very well be in

force herself to think straight. "I need to see the footage," she says, her voice

glance at Reid, and he nods, moving to pull it up on his phone. "It's not easy to watch," he warns, handing it over

phone, her wide eyes glued down to

stretches, thick and heavy as Emma watches the video, her breath catching

my God..." she whispers, her

to her mouth, but then

quickens as

any of you... I can't believe I didn't think to say this sooner! Oh my God!" Emma begins to babble, her face contorting in horror as if the pieces of the

it?!" I rush her, needing to know if she

do her storage room duties, somebody else was in there that she didn't expect

it?!" I demand sharply, as Reid gives me a

Ashton... but to cut to the chase, he's her dick ex-boyfriend from back home... she was really upset because apparently he's just moved in to town and lives with his grandmother now, so what if he's the one behind all of this? That could explain why

this right away?! It wasn't exactly small information?! She

that he seemed pretty decent... it's maybe worth

about her ex and about how he worked under her father for some time - ultimately treating her like

and had run in to her at school, before she goes missing isn't a fucking coincidence