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.

evil man he was so

my life? How many times had I been made to feel powerless, like my choices

and for a split second, I saw the boy I'd come to care about beneath the layers of control and strength he always wore. The same eighteen year old boy who, like me, had grown up in a world of chaos and violence and wanted to

alone wasn't enough for me.

could you do this?" My voice was quiet now, but it still carried every ounce of my pain. "How could you go to him thinking you could easily fix all of this, Vincent? After everything I've told

most finally catches up to you and makes you suffer... all you've done with this, has helped to bring him even closer to me!" I seethe, reminding myself of how dangerous this whole thing was quickly becoming. Vincent looked like he wanted to argue back on that, to explain himself again, but I

said in a scoff, my voice breaking. "You were the first guy I've ever fully let in about my past.

The words choked up

do you even realise that?! Especially from him! None of that has changed! I just went about it all completely wrong and for that,

the dam break. "You walked in to this blind, thinking that you could handle him, that you could

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vision, but this time they were being

still remained in the car, none of us feeling any closer to having this tender

how long it would take to finally get somewhere? To feel that we had reached an agreeable conclusion? But right now, I couldn't see one forming anytime in

choices for me and I get zero say in my own future, surely you can see why I'm so upset over this?!" The words spill out from me, the horror of what he was planning still stabbing away at my heart. Vincent's face

reaching out again, tentative and this time, I felt drained and allowed for him to

up so bad... and I was just as shocked as you were to learn that our fathers were somehow connected in a business sense... and I know I should've told you, and I'm so deeply sorry for how much it's hurt you... but if you would be willing, I would love to explain everything to you from start to

me out these

that still doesn't excuse what he done... this was

my hand from his and finally sighed, feeling utterly exhausted. "Fine," I whispered, not because I was ready to forgive, but because I needed more answers in order to move on with

needed to know

will be great again after." I remain firm,

of the