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.

of evil man he was

in my life? How many times had I been made to feel

my eyes finally locking onto Vincent's again. His 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 strength he always wore. The same eighteen year old boy who, like

enough for

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 you about him too, how could you even

but I cut him off again before he could. "You just don't get it, do 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

thought I could actually trust you," I said in a scoff, my voice breaking. "You were the first guy I've ever fully let in about my past. The

sentence. The words choked

ENOUGH! You have to let me explain myself here! I would still do fucking anything to keep you safe, do you even realise that?! Especially from him! None of that has changed! I just went about

my life! Nothing I say or want matters anymore, does it?!" I shouted, finally letting the dam break. "You walked 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 Vincent

that if you're not reading this book on nel5s.org, you might be

but this time

the car, none of us

it would take to finally get somewhere? To feel that we had reached an

wanted 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 see why I'm so upset over this?!" The words spill out from me,

dark tattooed hand reaching out again, tentative and this time, I felt

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 finish, we can go inside and fully talk this out, and after that you can decide if you still want to talk to me again

to help me out these past few weeks, so for that, I'll

excuse what he done... this was wrong, and I stood

feeling utterly exhausted. "Fine," I whispered, not because I was ready to forgive, but because I needed more answers in

needed to know

any promises that everything will be great again after." I remain firm, knowing

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