Shadows In Durango

Chapter 124

*****Sofia's POV*****

I couldn't breathe.

For the first time since the night I had left this very home, Vincent's home, my emotions were now taking a toll on me after what he did...

Perhaps with Ashton holding me hostage, I had been too distracted with fighting for my life that I hadn't had the time to fully address the deeper emotions that still lay hidden beneath the surface - meaning the whole situation with Vincent and my father.

Being here, now stuck with Vincent alone in his car, was fully resurfacing everything all at once for me and my thoughts flew recklessly to process it all...

The car walls felt as though they were closing in, the weight of Vincent's words only seeming to piss me off more in my heightened state.

Every ounce of trust I had in him was now shattered, slipping through my fingers like sand, and somehow, I still wanted him to somehow fix this - as though it could all just simply be erased.

But it wasn't that easy... I knew that.

He had gone behind my back on the worst possible thing he could have.

He had spoken to the one person I didn't ever want him to.

I wanted to scream at him, to cry, to demand more answers - ones that I already knew wouldn't even make a difference to how I felt right now.

Vincent had tried to justify his actions, tried to convince me that it was all for my own safety, but what he didn't understand what he couldn't understand - was how deeply his betrayal actually did cut me.

know my father personally, didn't even know the type of evil man

had I been made

face was a mask of anguish, and for a split second, I saw the boy I'd come to care about beneath the layers of control and

enough for

pain. "How could you go to him thinking you could easily fix all of this, Vincent? After everything I've told you about him too, how could you even think for a second that he would be happy to cooperate when he so desperately

you? You don't understand what it's like to constantly be running, to always be looking over your shoulder, waiting for the moment when the one person you fear the most finally catches up to you and makes you suffer... all you've done with this,

I've ever fully let in about my past. The first person who made me feel like I wasn't alone in this terrible nightmare. That I felt safe and protected

the sentence. The words choked

realise that?! Especially from him! None of that has changed! I just went about it all completely wrong and for that, I'm sorry!" Vincent's volume rises, as my lips

in to this blind, thinking that you could handle him, that you could outsmart him but you don't even know him, I DO!" I fume, as

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vision, but this time they were

us feeling

reached an agreeable conclusion? But

to marry me off for money, and do you just think that it's all an ok idea now because this time around, instead of an old man, it's to you?! How damn narcissistic does that sound?! Sure, I liked you Vincent, but you're now out here making major life choices for me and I get zero say in my own future, surely you can

and this time, I felt

if you would be willing, I would love to explain everything to you from start to finish, we can go inside

help me out these past few weeks, so

done... this

I was ready to forgive, but because I needed more answers

needed to know

everything will be great again after." I remain firm, knowing that I have to protect myself right now first and

He quickly got out of the car and came around to my side, opening