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

take the silence anymore. I

Anything.

at her. My eyes stayed glued to the road

her gaze burning into the side of my face. "What? I mean, how?" Her voice was shaking,

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

shot at all, but I knew it probably seemed that way with how I had acted last night, but I was just well and

and yet why could I see the guilt all

she whispered, "I feel that I'm responsible for all of this. If I hadn't come into your life at all, none

it, like she really believed she was a curse, or some kind of bad luck, hearing it

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 been through... that would

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 was

didn't want to make her feel any worse, but I couldn't pretend like it didn't bother me. She should have told me. I needed her to tell me. To trust me with such

wanted to keep

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when she finally spoke, her

didn't want to selfishly add another problem on top of that...

me hard next, pausing any and

can I say

truly at a loss for words

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

second to think... allowing my head to bury in to my hands, the weight of this conversation beginning to

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

this heavy

reach out to the one person

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

my head, forcing myself to face her on this. She was staring out the

hurt many times before, now hurting because of me, the

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 could provide enough context on how things had unravelled

- I should have discussed it with

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