Haunted by a dangerous Ch 117

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Shadows In Durango

Chapter 117-1

“I feel terrible!” I whisper out in a breath, only loud enough mys to wear it, before I sink back down in to my chair.

The moment Vincent walked away, I felt empty once again, the waiting room being a time for me to fully look back and reflect on

verything that had happened – everything I had done wrong,

His absence was immediate, as if the air had been sucked out of the pace as thigh he couldn’t stand to be around us for a second longer. He left us behind with nothing but the oppressive stillness at the dull hum of the hospital machines running in the background.

Luckily Emma had brought me pyjamas to wear (proper ones) not like the scratchy fabric I was found in and as for my matted hair and bruised up body. There wasn’t much to be done with that right now…

I swallow hard, annoyed that I somehow thought I would feel back to my normal self the second I was out of there and away from Ashton, but right now, I probably felt worse…

Worse knowing that I had hurt so many people with my foolishness and stupidity!

Reid hadn’t moved either, his leg still bouncing nervously as he stated down at the floor, clearly worried for his friend, and I could see the tension settled in his jaw, the same unspoken fear that was gripping all of us,

Daryl was still in surgery, still fighting for his life and it was all my fucking fault.

1 tried to blink back the tears burning the corners of my eyes, but it was no use. The pressure had been building for way too long. and now that Vincent had been and gone, there was nothing left to Fold me together.

Emma squeezed my hand gently, like she could sense the storm brewing inside me, but even her quiet support couldn’t stop the Good from coming.

I covered my face with my hands, my chest tightening as the sobs eventually broke free. “This is all my fault,” I whispered louder, my voice cracking under the weight of the words.

Emma immediately shifted closer to me, wrapping her arms around me, but her embrace only made the guilt worsen. “Sofia, na

“It is!” I choked, pulling away from her. The tears were falling freely now, hot and fast, and I couldn’t begin to control them.

I didn’t care who saw me. I didn’t care about anything except the overwhelming guilt eating me alive from the inside out.

f 1 ludn’t left Vincent’s house that night… if I would have just stayed to talk things out with him… If I hadn’t have been stupid mough to walk down that street alone so late at night… if I had just told Vincent about Ashton being in town… none of this wouldve ever happened to us!” My voice grows with each explanation, each one acting like a punch of reality.

This was all because of me…

Emma shook her head, her eyes soll with sympathy. “You couldn’t have known any of this would have-

“I should have known! I screamed, startling both Emma and Reid completely now

“I should have known he was the same asshole from before Every dan sign was there to alert me that I wouldn’t be safe here with him in town and I just ignored it I continue on, ignoring the muses who stare and whisper nearby no doubt worried about my urrent mental state

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But I didn’t care!

The sharpness of my voler cut through the rooms, but I couldn’t stop t. The words had been locked up inside me for hours, and now they were spilling out, raw and jagged.

Now Daryl might die in there, and it’s all my fault!” I choke out, allowing for my head to fall forward back in to my hands as I cry

I won’t ever forgive myself for causing so much pain to those who stopped up to

when my life was falling apart…

I ruined everything I had here… the life I had carefully tried to reboid for myself… all gonet

Why would any of them even want to keep me around after this? I was a danger to them all at this point! My life was a curse, a disease that might infect each and every last one of them!

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Lusbella Dehovos

wow even after everything that is happening you just think about yourself Sofia. wow. selfish much

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yes, yes it is your fault.

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Shadows In Durango

Chapter 117-2

I felt my chest heave as the memories crashed over me, one after the other. Ashton grabbing me, the suffocating fear as he dragged me into that dark basement, the blind terror of being trapped thine, belpless and alone. Daryl bursting in to save me, taking a buller that was no doubt meant for the, because I was hiding out on the rod too scared to fight back and face hirm for myself…

Sofia, none of us could’ve seen this coming. Ashton is a fucking pho. This wasn’t your fault, and Daryl would say the same!” Reid speaks out next, as I shake my head at his words in total disagreement.

I thought of Vincent, his face a mixture of pain and regret when he had walked in here.

He hadn’t looked at me the same way

He had barely spoken to me when he got here, wouldn’t even let me touch

…And why would he?

I was the reason his best friend was in that hospital bed, hooked up a machines, fighting to stay alive. I was the wedge that had landed between them both before all of this too. Their relationship hadn’t been the same, both fighting over stupid little me and for

what?

was a disgrace to the both of them!

Vincent blamed me. I could see it in his eyes, in the way he pulled away from me.

But the worst part was that I blamed myself for it all too.

It was my fault

All of it

dont deserve any of you,” I whispered, my voice barely audible now as the sobs gave way to a quiet, hollow despair as I finally look up again. “I’m the reason this happened. I’m the reason Daryl’s in there. I’m the reason Vincent got arrested, IL ruined everything in all of your lives.”

Emma suddenly latched herself on to me, hugging me tighter than ever before, but her warmth couldn’t reach me fully. Nothing could. The guilt was too thick and too suffocating.

“You didn’t ruin anything.” Emma murmured, her voice gentle but firm. “You survived, Sofia. That’s what you are, a survivor. Daryl went in there to save you because he knows how important you are to each and every one of us, and because he simply knew that you were worth saving.” Emma states, pulling back but maintaining her grip on my shoulders.

But her words only made the guilt twist harder inside me. How could be worth saving when it had cost all of them so much? How could any of them still care about me after what I’d caused for them!

“I dont even know if he’s going to make it, I whispered. I can’t… I can’t live with myself if he dies admit, as Emina swallows the Jump in her throat.

Reid finally spoke, his voice low and serious. “Daryl’s a fighter, Sofia hie’s not giving up. And neither should you.”

I wanted to beliver him. I wanted to believe that Daryl would pull though, that somehow everything would just go back to normal. But deep down, I knew that nothing would ever be the same again. Not for me. Not for any of us.

Vincent was right to pull away from in. I lidn’t deserve his forgiveness. I didn’t deserve any of their kindness. I was the reason we were all sitting here, in this sterile walling room, praying for a damnandrade!

And if Daryl didn’t make it…

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I couldn’t even begin to finish the thought,

The idea of Daryl

bright, loyal, brave Daryl not surviving was too much to bear. I would rather the bullet took me than him. It

wasn’t fait. None of this was lala on them!”

The tears came harder, my body shaking as I collapsed

Emma Stems again, completely undone.

All I could do was wait, trapped in the unbeatable limbo of gu

helplessness.

Perhaps I will wait for an update, a promising one, and then maybe will

will be my i