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.

one who'd put that very look

I couldn't take the silence anymore. I

Anything.

for this, you know," I said quietly, not daring to look at her. My eyes stayed glued to the road ahead, my voice low, as if saying it

toward me, and I could feel her gaze burning into the side of my face. "What? I mean,

to explain myself. "I don't blame you for what happened to

that way

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

on my words, and then, almost like she couldn't stop herself, she whispered, "I feel that I'm responsible for all of this. If I hadn't come into your life at all,

said it, like she really believed she was a curse, or

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

part of me wanted to punch something just thinking about that bastard alone. "He made his own choices, and he hurt people because 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 be easy for her to hear. "What

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

only wanted to keep

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spoke, her voice was so small, I

seemed so stressed and on edge that at the time, I didn't want to selfishly add another problem on top of that... but what I didn't know was that your

ones that hit me hard next, pausing any and all thoughts racing through

say to that?

for words as I stared ahead and waited for my

their toll now since this very matter had

I put the car in to park and took a second to think... allowing my head to bury in to my hands, the weight of this conversation

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

this heavy talk

explanation for why I had chose to reach out to the one person she feared most in this world: her

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

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

when she had already been hurt many times before, now hurting because of me, the

was doing the right thing in order to keep you safe, I didn't know he was going to manipulate the situation like he did, and the whole arranged marriage thing wasn't mine or my fathers idea,

the same fact still remained -

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