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CARMENI stared at Mariah as she wrapped my fingers around the hard drive and gently pushed it up to my chest to hold it close.“What?” I asked as if I had not just heard what she had told me about going to the police and having to tell them that my husband and my father-in-law were responsible for my mother-in-law’s disappearance.The pressure of everything that I had to do was starting to get to me, making me even more confused than I already was about everything I had been finding out for the past few days.“You are my only hope, Carmen. Neither Solene nor Angela can do this. I don’t want them to know that I have a sister or a living relative at all. They’re going to come for them.”So she was putting my life in danger in the stead of her sister instead?“I… I don’t know about this. They’re going to find out that I’m the one who made the report, and I can’t even explain how I got a hold of this drive? There will be thousands of questions that I wouldn’t even know how to answer.” I
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CARMENMariah was going to get caught – that was the one thing I kept telling myself after the detectives had mentioned getting a search warrant for Solene’s house.“The warrant is going to be difficult to get,” Detective Johnson informed us. “We don’t have something concrete to prove that they’re hiding something very huge. As the officers who had been there said, they might just be an ordinary mother with her college daughter, who must have been intimidated by all of the people wandering around in the neighborhood and probably told the taxi driver to take her into the garage for extra safety.”“They also mentioned that there was another car in the garage,” the second detective mentioned, causing my heart to skip a beat. Of course they had seen the Mini Cooper.If they decided to check the security cameras’ new footages from that day, they would notice the car pulling out of the garage, and they could possibly trace it back to me.“If her mother had a car and was at home, why didn’t
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CARMEN“My husband attempted to kill his mother.”I stared myself in the mirror of the police division bathroom and shook my head as I said that. That didn’t make sense to say, especially since his intention was not to kill her.I had asked for the bathroom as soon as I walked in as the pressure of everything had taken a toll on my bladder and I had to let it all out. Besides, I didn’t even know how to start my sentence – one that would grab the attention of the officer that I would be talking to.“Do you know the missing woman, Mariah Hayes? Well, I am her daughter-in-law and I think I know who is behind her going missing,” I said.“This isn’t working, Carmen.” I placed my hands on my head.I figured out that I would have to come up with something right on the spot as that would work better and the pressure would make me think of something to say.I grabbed my purse and walked out of the bathroom to find the officer that I had been directed to.“You were in there for quite a long tim
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CARMEN“What are you doing here without me?” Jasper asked, raising his brows at me and shifting his gaze between me and Detective Johnson.“Oh, I wanted to get some new information on the case. I thought you would be a little busy,” I made an excuse, but it was obvious to Jasper that I was lying.“You know I will never be too busy to get new information on my mother’s case. Did you come here to report something that you just found out?” He stepped forward, standing directly in front of me.“She didn’t, Mr. Hayes. You know that we wouldn’t find a new development without telling you about it. You’re her son, one of her two closest relatives,” Detective Johnson stepped in with a smile, helping me out of the money situation.“I think I should head out now,” I said, side stepping him and starting to walk away from him when he held me by the hand, causing me to stop.“Why don’t we just go together?” he offered.“I’m going to see my mother,” I responded, wringing my arm out of his grip.Once
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CARMENDave and I pulled away from each other with immense speed, using the sheets to cover up our nudity as my mother stood at the door, unable to hold her balance so much so that she had to hold on to the doorknob to keep her balance.“Mom…” I trailed off, not sure what to tell her as she stared with her mouth opening and closing as she was also lost for words.“What…” She looked between me and Dave, pointing before she finally exploded and started to scream at us. “What have you done?!”At the reminder of her gravely serious this was, Dave and I got out of bed and scrambled to get into our clothes as my mother bombarded us with question after question.“How long has this been going on?! Do you know what you have just done?! Is this why you had Steve sent away?! Carmen, I’m talking to you!”“Mom, please!” I shouted, raising my hand to my head from the stress. “You don’t understand. Dave and I have been seeing each other even before you got married to Steve.”“That is not a good enou
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CARMEN“Mom!” I whispered as aggressively as I could to get her attention and stop her from going on with the call she was currently on with Kate, but she stepped away from me and walked off.“How are you doing? Are you at home right now?” She questioned Kate, and I grabbed on to her hand until she looked at me so that I could shake my head and let her know that telling Kate about it would be a big mistake.“Are you busy?” She stared at me this time, firm and silently telling me that she was going to do it and there was nothing I could do to stop her.“No, I just wanted to find out if you had the time to come over to the house. There’s something important that Carmen and I would like to talk to you about.”My eyes widened when she said that, and I shook my head, but it was already done late. She was now smiling as Kate replied to the offer.“Yes, Carmen is here,” she confirmed.As soon as she hung up, she gave me her full attention and cocked her head to the side.“What? Did you reall
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CARMEN“Jasper, did my mother call you?” I asked, standing up as panic filled my entire body when I heard his loud and angry question about me and Dave.“You’re not even going to deny it?” He scoffed, confirming from my answer that whatever he had heard was true. “Where are you right now?”“We can talk about this, Jasper. Are you home? If you’re not, go home and I’ll come meet you there. I’m on my way,” I told him and headed straight for the door, but Terri stood in my way before I could reach the handle.“No, Carmen. I am not going to wait for you at home like some child. Tell me where you are right now and I’m going to pick you up,” he ordered, the tone of his voice letting me know that arguing with him over it would do nothing but prolong the issue and make him angrier.“I’m at Terri’s apartment,” I finally gave in, not making eye contact with Terri as I feared that she would be disappointed in me for telling him where I was when he was that angry.He hung up the phone, and I gave
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CARMEN“Jasper,” I cried out as I went for the second option I had after finding out that he had locked the door – I started to open my purse and reach for my phone. “Please, don’t do this.”“I’m not going to do anything to you,” he assured me, his voice dangerously low.In a bid to dial 9-1-1 on my phone, I made the mistake of letting my purse fall to the floor and took his attention to my hands to see what I was doing.“You’re not listening to me, Carmen!” He yelled, grabbing my phone from my hand and throwing it aside.He stepped away from me and raised his hands in the air to show me his gesture of surrender and harmlessness.“I said, I am not going to do anything to you. I’m not going to hurt you,” he said again, walking even further back.“Open the door,” I requested, causing him to frown at my request.“We’re not done talking. We need to finish this right here and right now before any one of us walks out of this room,” he argued, and I nodded. “The first thing I need you to do
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CARMEN“Are you sure about this? Maybe you heard him wrong the first time. Besides, I just got out of prison. I highly doubt that he’ll want to get to see me just yet,” I said to Dave as we slowly walked towards the front door of his father’s house.“You just have to relax for me, Carmen,” Dave said, placing a hand on my lower back. “I didn’t hear him wrong. He clearly said it after his divorce with your mom that he would feel better about giving us his blessing now that he’s not married to her.”We got into the living room, where Steve sat with his legs crossed as he took note of something from a piece of paper.“Dad, look who’s here,” Dave called for his attention, making him look up at us and stand up to give me a good look. I almost laughed at his reaction, but I was too consumed by nervousness to make a sound.“Carmen, what… Come here, my sweet child,” he said, walking towards me and meeting me halfway with a hug.“What happened to you?!” he asked as he pulled away from the hug a
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CARMEN“How may I help you?” the woman who stood at the doorway asked me, and I had half a mind to apologize and tell her I had the wrong house before walking away, but I decided to stay instead.“Is Dave home?” I asked.“Mr. Wilmer is home, but he didn’t tell me he was expecting anyone,” she answered, looking down at my hands which held the small box where the wristwatch was. “You can tell me your name, so I can go tell him—”“You really don’t have to,” I said, stopping her from walking back in. “Just let me in, please. I have something important to talk to him about.”“I understand that you probably know him, but I don’t want to get into any trouble. It’s my first day at work, and I don’t want to mess this up.”“You won’t,” I assured her. “You just have to trust me.”It took a moment of hesitation before she finally sighed and stepped aside for me to walk in.I glanced at the little girl she had in her hand with a smile on my face as I got to see just how much she looked like Kate.
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CARMEN“Did you tell anyone? I told you not to tell anyone. Did you tell anyone?” I blurted to Evan as I found him standing and waiting for me on the day of my release.“Relax, Carmen,” he laughed. “I only told them that I was coming to check up on you. Why don’t you want them to know that you’re being released, anyway? Are you planning to live as far away as possible without them knowing?”“No,” I answered. “I just… I didn’t want them standing out here and waiting for me to come out. I still need to prepare myself for everything. It’s been a long three years, and I don’t know how they’re going to react.”“I’m sure all this is not what they’re thinking about right now. Trust me when I say that those people will wait for ten years if they have to,” he informed me.As much as it was assurance enough to hear those words from Evan, it didn’t make my heart beat any slower than the speed at which it was going.“Thank you for going through the stress of picking me up, by the way,” I told him
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CARMEN“Cartier!”I flinched when I heard my last name being called by the prison guard as she stopped in front of the cell I shared with two other women – Reese and Naomi.She chewed her gum aggressively, using her baton to hit the cell bars, as she watched me so intently that I almost started to dig a hole to hide myself in.“You have been here for a while now, Carmen. It’s time you took the bull by the horns. Don’t let people like her intimidate you,” Naomi said, giving me an encouraging pat on the back to approach the prison guard and ask her what her deal was and why she was calling me.“What…what’s the matter?” I questioned, looking down at my feet to avoid making eye contact with the woman.“Are you ready for your board hearing today?” she asked me, leaning against the bars with folded arms.“I think so,” I said with a nod.“Well, then.” She sighed and took out the key to the bars, opening it for me to step out.“Good luck, Carmen! I’ve had two board hearings so far that have n
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CARMENEvan was now standing in front of me with a silent reminder for me to keep my chin up and that I would be fine after the trial, but it was getting harder to do so.After the prosecutor finished asking me questions, I started to feel as if every answer that I had given had dug me into a hole that I would not be able to come out of.“When the victim was making those moves towards you, you called out for your mother, didn’t you?” he asked.“I did.”“Well, to demonstrate just how far her voice must have reached when she called out to her mother, we tested it. I called out to different sound experts to the house, and I was asked to stay in the farthest room from the kitchen. At 70 decibels, I could hear someone calling out to me from that room.”“From the footages gotten from the security cameras around the house, Mrs. Wilmer was not even in the farthest room to the kitchen. In fact, at the same time that Ms. Cartier is seen shouting for her mother’s help in the kitchen, we can see
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CARMENMy mother stared at Evan with a shocked expression on her face as he submitted a flash drive to the judge as evidence.“The house where you left after you got married to Mr. Wilmer had a lot of security cameras, which Mrs. Wilmer here may have forgotten about when she slipped into the kitchen and put about ten pills of aphrodisiac into the victim’s drink,” Evan explained as the video on the drive was played for the whole courtroom to see.I had not thought that Evan would work that hard and go that far to get evidence, but he did. Was that why he had been working with my father the whole time? Even I didn’t know about that.“If we watch further, we can see that there was no complete and direct contact between my client and the victim that they were involved in any sexual discussions with each other. To further prove that an aphrodisiac was used in this footage, we have receipts from the pharmacy that she bought them from that week.”“Do the prosecutors have anything to add to t
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CARMENDave and I shared a look of disappointment, and I could see that he had made up his mind to be with me no matter what his father said, but that didn’t stop me from feeling bad.“This whole thing between Bianca and I is not close to being over, and I believe she’s going to raise hell before everything is finalized. I have all of that in mind, and I don’t want anything to distract me just yet. Perhaps, after the divorce, we can revisit this talk,” Steve explained.I completely understood why he didn’t agree to the whole thing, but that didn’t mean I was not hurt by it.“You can take all the time you need to think about it,” I encouraged. “We wouldn’t want to put you under any kind of pressure.”“Carmen and I have something important to discuss. Thank you for giving us your honesty, father,” Dave told him as he took my hand and led me out of the room as he asked me, “Which of the bedrooms is yours?”“Here.” I took the lead from him and opened the door to my room, slamming it shut
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CARMENBefore Dave could take me into the room where his father was staying, I pulled him back. I tried my hardest to hide my annoyance from him, but I could feel it coming off in waves, and I was certain that he could tell as well.“Is something wrong?” he questioned, and I raised my brow at that.“I should be asking you that question, Dave. I know you’re mad at me, and you should be mad at me for what I hid from you, but you haven’t spoken to me in a week. We can’t just leave things hanging and go in there to tell your father about us.”“I know, Carmen. We have a lot of talking to do, and I do have a lot of apologies as well, but I don’t want to prolong this. The more we keep him the dark, the less likely he is to be happy about the news. We can talk about everything else that we haven’t talked about during the week after.”“Are you sure you want to do this?” I asked. “With everything that my mother must have planted in your mind against me—”“She planted nothing in my mind against
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CÀRMEN“What…what are you doing here?” I asked, looking around to see if I could find out if someone else came with him – perhaps Kate or his father.“I wanted to talk to you about everything,” he said.“There’s nothing to talk about. We’re divorced,” I replied, wanting to turn around when he grabbed me by the wrist.“What are you doing?” Dad asked, finally bringing Jasper’s attention towards himself.“Who are…” Jasper trailed off as recognition grew in his eyes, and he took steps back as be looked between me and my father.“You’re… You’re her father,” he noted. “They said you were dead.”“If she doesn’t want to talk to you, don’t you think you should take a hint and leave her alone?” Dad asked him, ignoring his shock and refusing to give him any explanation.“I just wanted to have a short and important talk with her about something, that’s all,” Jasper defended.“Excuse us,” I told Dad, a little curious to know what Jasper wanted to say even after we had legally gone our separate way
