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.

that I was the one who'd put

silence anymore. I had to

Anything.

for this, you know," I said quietly, not daring to look at her. My eyes

see from the corner of my eye her head snapping toward me, and I could feel her gaze burning into the side of

explain myself. "I don't blame you for what happened to Daryl. I'm angry, yeah, but

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 face

for all of this. If I hadn't come into your life at all, none of this would've happened to any of you." Her voice cracked, and

curse, or

fighting the urge to yell, to tell her she was wrong, but I didn't. I had no right to snap at her, not

do with you. But..." I hesitated, knowing what I was about to say wasn't going to be easy for her to hear. "What was to do with you, was not telling me sooner that you knew he was here, in town." I could feel her shift in the seat

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

to keep

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she finally spoke, her voice was so small, I almost

with 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

ones that hit me hard next, pausing any

can I say to that?

start, but nothing else comes after that, I was truly at a loss for words as I stared

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

and in to my driveway, I put the car in to park and took a second to think... allowing my head to bury in to my

at the same time. I didn't even know where to start now. I'd run it over in my head a thousand times, thinking through all the things I would say when we found her, but now that

this heavy talk was

I had chose to reach out to the

that, but I was now fucking

forcing myself to face her on this. She was staring out the window, tears

many times before, now hurting because of me, the one she had finally began

he was going to manipulate the situation like he did, and the 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

intentionally, but the same fact still remained - I should have discussed it

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