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CARMEN“Let me have it, Carmen,” Jasper ordered me, outstretching his hand for me to place my phone on his palm. At that point, I knew that there was no lying to get out of it; he had heard me talking to Emily.“You don’t understand, Jasper. I just…” I pulled the phone away from my ear, hanging up and placing the phone behind my back to avert his attention from it, but that only triggered him even more.“Let me have the phone, Carmen!” he demanded even louder this time, stepping forward as if ready to take the phone away from me in an instant if I didn’t do it.“I wanted to be sure,” I said as I gave in and fixed the phone in his hand.“You wanted to be sure about something that I had already told you?” He narrowed his eyes at me as he asked. “You do know that trust is a key factor in marriage, right? If you don’t trust me, how are things going to work between us? How are we ever going to get past the circumstances surrounding our marriage?”I wanted to know that I could trust him, an
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CARMENDave and I pulled away from each other in panic as we looked at the person who had walked in and caught us in the act – Nova.“Oh, my God,” she said again, her voice airy as she stepped back and looked at us in disbelief. “I knew it! I had my suspicions, but my sister kept shutting me out and claiming that she trusted you! How could you do this…”“Nova, this doesn’t have to get out of hand like this,” Dave told her, getting off the bed and putting on his clothes. I did the same, keeping my eye on her and hoping that she would not run out of there to announce it to everyone she saw on the way.“What does that even mean? Do you expect me to keep quiet about this?” Her eyes met with mine, and they blazed with rage. “She still believes you’re a good friend of hers, Carmen! How could you do this? He’s your stepbrother, for Christ’s sake!”“I’m sorry,” was the only thing I could mutter, pitiful and filled with nothing but shame.“Just wait until everybody finds out. How are you going
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CARMENI crawled away from Jasper, getting up on my feet as I watched him sway from side to side and looking ready to collapse at any minute.The shock of what had just happened reverberated within me as I stared at my husband in disbelief.“Jasper?” I called. “What happened to you? How did you get this drunk?”“Drunk?” he echoed in a lazy slur, staggering forward as I moved back to avoid his sudden aggressiveness. “You’re calling me drunk? How dare you call me drunk?!”“Just go up to the room and have a shower. I can take you if you want,” I offered, but I didn’t dare walk up to him just yet. Not after he had just pushed me so hard without the slightest remorse. I bore it in mind that he was not in a good place, not in control of himself.“You don’t tell me what to do,” he spat bitterly as he headed for the stairs, loosening his tie and struggling to go up the stairs, crawling on his hands and feet to get to the top of the stairs.I followed behind him until he managed to get into th
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CARMEN“Emily is my daughter.”I blinked three times at Terri, my surprise lying in my eyes as I watched her eyes grow distant – she was reminiscing. There was something painful swirling on her face as well, and I knew that there was definitely something horrible covering the situation.“I’d like to let bygones be bygones, Carmen,” she stated with a tired sigh, putting a needle in my hope and deflating it.“I really didn’t know. It’s just… You used to work for Mariah when he met her?” I inquired, but she still remained silent, as if the last thing she was going to do was speak on it, but I was as curious as she was stubborn. There had to be something she could tell me.“Listen, Terri. I know this might be an old wound for you, and the last thing I would want to do is open it so carelessly, but I would really like to prevent another bad thing from happening based on past events. I just want to know if Jasper told me the entire truth about the situation.”“He would be brave to tell you
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CARMEN“Poisonous,” I echoed to myself as I clutched the bottle in my hand, slipping it into my purse before my mother would walk back in and realize that I had just found her out.Was she seriously using something like that for Steve Wilmer? It didn’t make sense at all, but I knew I couldn’t confront her about it outright. She was smart, and she would have something to say in her defence.“You’re not stirring it, Carmen!” Mom scolded as she walked and caught me in the middle of my thoughts, taking the wooden spoon and stirring the soup.“Why don’t you just get one of the staff to make the soup? Isn’t this stressful for you?” I questioned, trying to deduce what I could from her answers.“Steve likes my soup. He has learned to prefer it over everyone else’s, and I have to prioritize his health. Did you know that his symptoms are back? Just yesterday on the business trip we took, he kept breaking out into a cold sweat, and his hands were trembling.” Her face fell when she turned around
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CARMEN“You can’t eat the soup,” I said to Steve.“I don’t understand,” Mom commented in confusion, dropping the soup spoon in the bowl as she looked at me for an explanation. “What’s gotten into everybody?”I looked around at everyone sitting at the table, and they were looking at me with the same confusion that my mother had on her face.“Are you going to explain?” Steve demanded, now looking annoyed. I understood perfectly why he seemed completely done with everyone and their behaviours without giving an explanation.I couldn’t open my mouth and blurt out that he was possibly being poisoned by my mother. I had no idea how he would take it, or how anybody else would. I decided in my head that I had to confront my mother about it before anything, but Steve couldn’t eat that soup.I grabbed the bowl of soup from him with a tight-lipped smile as I said, “It wasn’t made properly. When my mom left me in the kitchen with it, I thought it needed a little bit of sugar, and I added some suga
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CARMEN“What?” My mom and I exclaimed at the same time after Dave’s announcement, bringing the attention of the people who had excused us.“Is everything okay?” Jasper asked, raising an eyebrow of concern at us.“We’re fine, thank you!” Mom replied before she went back to looking at Dave. “What do you mean by that? A life insurance? He didn’t tell me anything about that. Where did you get that information from?”“I am his son and his business partner. He feels obligated to tell me everything. He said he took one out recently because he’s afraid that whatever this illness is, it could kill him,” Dave explained.“No.” Mom shook her head, using her hands to cover her face as she chanted the single word of denial. “No, no, no, no. He can’t die. How could he say that? He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”“I didn’t want to believe it at first, but it’s Steve Wilmer we’re talking about here,” Dave said. “He barely goes to see a doctor whenever he’s sick, and he practically has to be for
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CARMENKate stared at me like a deer caught in the brightness of headlights, but she was quick and smart to smooth it out with a bright smile.“Carmen! What a pleasant surprise. What are you doing here?” She hugged me as tight as possible, only pulling away when I made the first move to get out of her arms.“I came here to get something tested. You know, regular checkups and all of that.” I waved off with feigned nonchalance. “And you? You used to be scared of hospitals, remember? What are you doing here all of a sudden?”“I used to be scared of hospitals when I was still a child. Now, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I have to come here once in a while. I came to get some test results for my parents while they’re away.” I could see her trying to smoothen the skirt of her dress, which was not even ruffled, but I didn’t want to point out how nervous she was. In fact, I was eager to leave.“I’ll see you around, yeah? With the whole honeymoon coming and everything else,” I reminded
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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
