All Chapters of Left at the alter, married the enemy : Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Chapter 55: The Back ExitWe moved.Not run. Running would’ve made noise. Sebastian grabbed his wallet and keys. I grabbed nothing. Vivian was already moving toward the kitchen, toward the back hallway that led to the service exit.The pounding on the front door started. Not knocking. Pounding. Like they weren’t bothering to pretend anymore.“Kim, open up.”Not Kim’s voice. Someone working for him.We hit the back stairwell. It was dark. Concrete. The kind of place that smelled like nobody ever used it. Sebastian went first. Vivian grabbed my arm.The door above us opened. Someone shouting.We went down faster.Ground level. Another door. Emergency exit. The alarm would trigger but we didn’t have a choice.Sebastian pushed through.The alley was dark. Wet from recent rain. He grabbed Vivian’s hand, pulled both of us toward the street.“Go left,” the text had said. “Black sedan on the corner. Keys in the visor. Drive north on the parkway. Don’t stop. Don’t call anyone.”We didn’t see w

Chapter 57: What Nolan WantsNolan pulled a chair from the corner and sat down like we hadn’t just been terrified seconds ago.Kim stayed by the door. Not blocking it. Just there.“David,” Nolan said. “You look like your mother.”David didn’t move.“Same eyes. Same jawline.” He was studying David like he was trying to see something underneath the skin. “That’s good. It means you understand what she understands. That family matters. That some choices echo forward and backward both.”“What do you want,” David’s mother said.“I want to know why you kept the video.”“Because you were going to kill me.”“I was.” Nolan nodded like she’d confirmed something he already knew. “three years ago I paid you. Then I sent Kim to clean up. And instead of disappearing, you ran. Instead of staying quiet, you kept insurance.”“Insurance,” David’s mother said.“Insurance.” Nolan stood and walked to the window. Looked out at the parking lot. “Everyone thinks insurance is protection. It’s not. It’s leverag

Kim came back inside and closed the door.“You three need to understand something,” he said.We didn’t say anything.“Your father just won. He got the video. He’s going to neutralize David with federal charges. He’s going to clean up every loose end except one.”“Except what,” Sebastian asked.“Except me. Except the person who’s been carrying his secrets for fifteen years. The person who knows where the bodies are buried. Literally.”Kim pulled out his phone.“I made copies too. Different copies. Better copies. And I’ve been waiting for the right moment to use them.”He showed us the screen.It was a video file. Not of Marcus. Of someone else. Someone very familiar.The file was labeled: Chris Park. Documented involvement in organized crime operations spanning 2010 to present.My blood went cold.“Your cousin,” Kim said to Sebastian. “Nolan never told you about Chris, did he.”Sebastian’s face had gone completely white.“Chris is just—”“Chris is very much involved. Chris has been run

Chapter 60: The Mall Immediately after Sebastian told Chris to run, we also moved to another city.We’d been in Los Angeles for two days.We were staying at a small hotel on the outskirts of the city. Nothing fancy. The kind of place where nobody asked questions and nobody cared who was checking in.Vivian had gone to the shopping mall to get clothes. Fresh things. Things that didn’t smell like fear and running.She’d been gone for an hour.She came back looking like she’d seen a ghost.“What’s wrong,” I asked.She didn’t answer right away. Just sat down on the edge of the bed and stared at the wall like it was very interesting.“I saw David,” she said finally.“What.”“At the mall. Coming out of a store. I saw David.”I set down the coffee I’d been holding.“David’s in Mexico. David and his mother got on a plane and they disappeared.”“That’s what we thought,” Vivian said. “But I’m telling you I saw him. He was wearing different clothes. Different hair. He had glasses on. But it was

Chapter 62: The ChoiceWe drove in silence for a long time.No destination. Just moving through Los Angeles while the evening turned to night and the city lights began to replace the sunset. Vivian hadn’t said a word since we got in the car. I was staring at the text on my phone, reading it over and over, as if the words might rearrange themselves into something that made sense.“Don’t call anyone. Don’t warn anyone. Just come back to the building tomorrow. Room 2304. We have more to discuss. And bring whatever evidence you have against Nolan. All of it. Or David starts talking tonight”.“We don’t have evidence,” Vivian said finally. Her voice cut through the silence like something sharp. “We don’t have anything that would hold up. We have conversations. We have things Nolan said. We have—” She stopped. “We have nothing.”“Pascal knows that,” Sebastian said. His hands were very tight on the steering wheel. “Pascal wouldn’t ask for it unless he was testing us. Unless he was seeing if w