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.

was some secret code to

What did I miss? Did you find something?!"

have spoke about this in front of her. She could do without the extra worry

from around town. One was Sofia walking, the other was at a cafe and the last was her walking not far from

Do you know what he looks like? What happened next?!" Emma rambles, her gaze darting between us both as

the way she stops when he pulls up, it's almost as if she recognises him at first, as if she is nervous on what to do next. That's what I gathered from it anyway. But the worst part is, Sofia seems to take a dizzy turn when he climbs out of the car and she collapses on the pavement." Reid tells her,

that?" Emma confirms her suspicions as Reid only

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

head as if trying to force herself to think straight. "I need to see the

it up on his phone.

takes the phone, her wide eyes glued down to the

as Emma watches the

whispers, her

then suddenly,

as

reason why she was upset that day at school but didn't want to tell any of you... I can't believe I didn't think to

if she had any information that would help us to

that she didn't expect to see." She starts, before I cut her off and grow increasingly

gives me a look to say 'watch it' which I

maybe? I think it was 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

It wasn't exactly small information?! She knew I was keeping

was a guy and that he seemed pretty decent... it's maybe worth calling to see if it's the same guy?!" Reid suddenly adds, as I move quickly towards my trashed desk to grab my phone and notes

about her ex and about how he worked under her father for some time - ultimately treating her like shit as a result of that

to her at school, before she goes