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

the silence

Anything.

at her. My eyes stayed glued to the road ahead, my voice low, as

the corner of 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, and I

hand back through my hair, trying to figure out how to explain myself. "I don't blame you for what happened to Daryl. I'm

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

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

whispered, "I feel that I'm responsible for all of this. If I hadn't come into your life at all, none of this would've happened to any

curse, or some kind of bad luck, hearing it made my

to yell, to tell her she was wrong, but I didn't. I had no right 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 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 beside me, and

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.

only wanted to keep

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finally spoke, her voice was so small, I

stressed and on edge that at the time, I didn't

ones that hit me hard next,

say to that?

loss for words as I stared ahead and waited for my

me?!" She demands to know, her emotions taking their toll now

car in to park and took a second to think... allowing

over in my head a thousand times, thinking through all the

this heavy talk was

why I had chose to reach out to the one person she feared most

I was now fucking terrified

raised my head, forcing myself to face her on

hurt many times before, now hurting because of me, the one she had finally began to trust - it killed

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, it was all him - believe me!"

fact still remained - I should have

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