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.

was the one who'd put that very look

I couldn't take the silence

Anything.

look at her. My eyes stayed glued to the road ahead, my voice low, as if saying it too loud would make

my eye 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,

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

angry at her for Daryl getting shot at all, but I knew it probably seemed that

the real fucking monster here, and yet why could I see the guilt all over her face as though it

responsible for all of this. If I hadn't come into your life

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

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

with you. But..." I hesitated, knowing what I was about to say wasn't

any worse, but I couldn't pretend like it didn't bother me. She should have told me. I needed her

only wanted to

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pause, and when she finally spoke, her voice was so small,

that at the time, I didn't want to selfishly add another problem on top of that... but what

next, pausing any

I say

that, I was truly at a loss for words as I stared ahead and waited for my street to open up the gates

didn't you just tell me?!" She demands to know, her emotions taking their toll now since this very

park and took a second to think... allowing my head to bury in

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 we were actually here, it was like every word I wanted to say

heavy talk was

reach out to the one

had fucked up majorly, I knew that, but I was now fucking terrified of what might

her on this. She was

hurt many times before, now hurting because

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 could provide enough context

malicious, at least not intentionally, but the same fact still remained - I should have discussed it with her

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