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

take the silence anymore. I

Anything.

look at her. My eyes stayed glued to the road ahead,

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

"I don't

it probably seemed that way with how I had acted last night, but I was just well and truly overwhelmed

see the guilt all over her face as though it

all of this. If I hadn't come into your life at all,

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

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

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

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

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

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 that... but what I didn't know was that your stress all linked back to contacting my father

words were ones that hit me hard next, pausing

I say

I was truly at a loss for words as I

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

to park and took a second to think... allowing my

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 had just evaporated from my

known this heavy

had chose to reach out to

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

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

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

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

- I should have discussed it with her from the very start to avoid all of

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