Shadows In Durango

Chapter 123

Chapter 123

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

The silence in the car was killing me.

I kept my eyes locked on the road, gripping the steering wheel so hard that my knuckles pulsed around the leather.

The tension between us was thick, almost suffocating, and I figured that it wouldn't have been so severe since we had both spent some time apart...

But boy was I wrong!

I could feel her growing antsy beside me, fidgeting, probably lost in her own worried thoughts, and all I could think about was how badly I'd screwed this all up from start to finish.

I knew that I couldn't avoid this conversation any longer, but damn, I still wasn't as ready for it as I thought I would be.

Not even close.

There was a million things to say and to talk through, yet all I could give her right now was thickening silence...

She had every right to be angry, every right to hate me for how I had handled things. The way I'd kept her in the dark. The way I'd gone behind her back.

But what the hell was I supposed to do?

Did she expect me to just sit back and watch her get pulled into even more danger? Watch her father finally catch up with her? Watch her get hurt because of me?

I only thought I was helping...

I glanced over at her, just for a second, and saw the tension in her face, her hands twisting nervously in her lap below.

She was hurting like I was over this, probably more.

And I hated it.

hated knowing that I was the one

I couldn't take the silence anymore.

Anything.

not daring to look at her. My eyes stayed glued

her head snapping toward me, and I could feel her gaze burning into the side of my face. "What? I mean, how?" Her voice was shaking, and I could hear the

sighed, running a hand back through my hair, trying to figure out how to explain myself. "I don't blame you for what happened to Daryl. I'm angry, yeah, but

wasn't angry at her for Daryl getting shot at all, but I knew it probably seemed that way with how I had acted last night, but I was just well and

why could I see the guilt all over her

and then, almost like she couldn't stop herself, she whispered, "I feel that I'm responsible for all of

a curse, or some kind of bad luck, hearing it made my body

yell, to tell her she was wrong, but I didn't. I had no right to snap at her, not after everything that she's already

of his own issues. That's nothing to do with you. But..." I hesitated, knowing what I was about to say wasn't going to

it didn't bother me. She should have told me. I needed her to tell me.

only wanted to

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spoke, her voice was

a lot," she admitted, her voice shaking with the weight of her guilt. "You seemed so stressed and on edge that at the time, I didn't want to selfishly add another problem on top of

next, pausing any and

can I say

for words as I stared

to know, her emotions taking their toll now since this very matter had been well overdue for us

I put the car in to park and took a second

a thousand times, thinking through all the things I would say when we found

this heavy talk was

out to the one person she

I was now fucking terrified of what might happen once everything was out

a shaky breath, I raised my head, forcing myself to face her on this. She was staring out the window, tears glistening in her

her like that, hurting, when she had already been hurt many times before, now hurting because of me,

whole arranged marriage thing wasn't mine or my fathers idea, it was all him - believe me!" I begin to spill out, hoping that I could provide enough context on how things had unravelled that day in order for her to trust

but the same fact still remained - I should have discussed it with her from the very start to avoid all

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