setting in. What if they were wrong? What if she arrived and his wife was there with him?
“You’ll walk right back out, that’s what,” she whispered firmly as she looked for a parking space near his restaurant. “But at least you’d have the answer to that cruel thought, and Magdalena would have no choice but to stop with all her nonsensical theories.”
Busy eyeing the restaurant, Isabella pulled into a parking space several storefronts down from it. It wasn’t even until she turned her car off that she noticed the car that slowed behind her and nearly stopped. She watched through her rearview window, wondering what they were doing stopping right behind her, but it was too dark to make out who was in the car. Pulling away suddenly with a skid, Isabella turned out her side window and watched as the car pulled in and parked up the street.
Shrugging it off, she took a deep breath and got out of her car. Taking a few more breaths just outside her car, she dug deep to summon the courage to go through with this. Just as she’d taken a few steps, her heart nearly stopped when someone grabbed her arm roughly and spun her around.
Capítulo 23
No Sacrifice is too Big.
Alejandro
It’d been weeks since Alej had finally made the decision to reach out to Isa. He’d read about Cido and Octavio being released, and, despite hearing about the attorney dream team representing them in court, he didn’t trust that they wouldn’t still try to run. He knew Isa too well to know she’d be against it, and he was afraid, even if she protested running, she might be forced to anyway against her will. But of course, he’d had no luck trying to find her.
At first, it was because the trucks had been off the streets after being seized. But even after he’d been surprised to hear two of them were back on the streets, they weren’t at their usual spots. He did finally spot them again since he knew they were out there, and he’d been on a mission to find them. But so far, she hadn’t been in either every time he’d gone looking for her. Short of showing up at the Ochoa’s home, whose address was listed, he wasn’t sure how else to find her. Given Cido’s warning, he knew that might get ugly, and he couldn’t even blame the guy. Still, this was Isa, and he was worried about her well-being, so he was determined to find her and talk to her finally. The way he should’ve the second time he ran into her when he’d choked.
No matter what the circumstances were now, he owed their relationship at least that much. They’d been through way too much to let things end this way, especially now that he was free to at least try and salvage what they once had.
Half the kitchen was closed now since they were nearing closing time. Glancing at the clock as the final couple who’d been in there paid for their dinner, Alej’s mentally exhausted ass decided, he’d wrap things up earlier than the norm tonight. The couple walked out after paying, and his dad began clearing up their table. “I think I’m gonna close it up a half hour early tonight.”
His dad nodded, glancing up at him. “Sounds good. It’s been a long day.”
Picking up the plastic carrier he’d put all the plates in, his dad walked out of the dining room and into the kitchen. He started to unload the carrier into the sink but stopped and exchanged a glance with Alej. What sounded like loud talking outside that Alej had earlier assumed was the couple that walked out turned into a shouting match now.
Alej stopped what he was doing to get a better listen. “Get off me!” a woman said loudly.
Instantly, he headed toward the door. Looking both ways, he spotted the couple near a car several stores down. A man had a woman pushed against a car, and he spoke loudly into her face. Though Alej couldn’t make out exactly what he was saying, he was obviously mad.
“Don’t get involved, hijo,” Alej turned back to his dad, who was standing just inside looking through the window. “Probably just a lover’s quarrel.”
Turning back to the couple just in time to see the guy backslap her, he headed toward them, in spite of his dad’s warning. No fucking way could he stand back and watch a man put his hands on a