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CARMENI stopped in my tracks, turning back to my mother and staring at her in utter disbelief. She stared back at me with pride, as if she had not just told me the worst thing that I could hear from her.“What do you still have the video for? You told me that you deleted it,” I pointed out, my tone holding accusation.“Well, I may have misspoke. Also, I had a suspicion that it could still come in handy sometime soon. I know how much you barely keep to your business, Carmen. This would have happened sooner or later, and it grieves me that it came sooner than I prepared for.”“So it’s true?” I scoffed. “You have been poisoning Steve?”“You wouldn’t understand,” she said and shook her head. “You’re barely twenty. I’m doing everything I can for you, I swear. I fear that the only time you’re going to realize this is when you have succeeded in putting us in trouble, or when I’m dead—”“Stop trying to manipulate me!” I yelled at her, walking back towards her.“Why are you doing this? Do you
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CARMENI stayed on the phone with Emily, and the silence passed after what she had just told me. My thoughts went to all of those times that I had seen Jasper inject his mother and how he had assured me that he was just doing his duty.“He can’t kill his mother, Emily. That’s not possible,” I denied with a shake of my head, praying for it to be untrue. If that really were the reason for Terri still being in that house, then what about me? How much danger was I in by living in that house?“I’m not going to argue with you about this, Carmen. My mother has warned me against talking to you about it, but I would really like to be of help in any way that I can. The one thing I can tell you right now is that you’re married to a raging psycho, and I really hope you don’t have an awful confrontation with him,” she said.My eyes trailed over the building for a second, and my body froze as I noticed the silhouette of someone through one of the upstairs windows, looking down at me – Jasper.“I ca
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CARMENI couldn’t tell if I wanted to hear the next words that Jasper would say, especially when he looked the way he did – panicked and barely even able to stand on his feet as he attempted to get off the bed.“What…what’s wrong with your mother, Jasper?” I stuttered, my heart thudding faster than I had ever felt it thud before.“Terri told me that she only wanted to make her some soup when she started to have strange seizures,” he reported, placing his phone to his ear as he started to dial a number with the SIM he had gotten from the airport.“Doctor Gerber, I need you to report to my house as soon as you possibly can. My mother is having a strange reaction to something, she’s alone with her caretaker, and I am all the way in Belize to drive her to the hospital by myself,” he said into the phone.In an attempt to calm him down, I headed for him and placed a soothing hand on his shoulder as I whispered calming words to him.“She’s going to be fine,” I gave my words of reassurance, b
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CARMEN“What the hell is going on?!” I shouted at Kate in panic as the other patrons of the restaurant started to look at us, some of them approaching us and calling to the attention of the people who worked at the restaurant. “You said there wouldn’t be any mistakes!”“That’s what they told me! Someone, please help me get him to a hospital!” Kate yelled, but people were already on it, lifting Dave and listening to different recommendations on the closest hospitals to where we were until they settled for one which was just down the street. “Where the fuck is the manager of this restaurant?!”A middle-aged man with wide eyes and a bald patch in the middle of his head ran towards us, breathing loudly with his mouth open as he scoped out the scene and tried to figure out what had just happened.“I am the manager of this restaurant, and I don’t know what—”“Sir, is this truly how you manage your restaurant?!” Kate snapped at him before he could finish his statement. “I was told after lots
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CARMEN“How are you feeling?” I asked as I walked into the ward that Dave had been put in. His face was still a bit bloated, but the smile he had on his face was enough for me to figure out that he was doing better and he really had recovered.“Not very great, but not horrible either.” He grunted as he sat up and gestured for me to walk over to him, which I did.“You shouldn’t have sent the doctor to tell Kate not to come, by the way,” I said. “She feels bad now. She thinks you’re angry at her.”“I am,” he confirmed with a nod. “I told her right before that I was not one to—”“You do know that it’s not her fault, right? She did all she could. And her effort to order the separate platter for you shows how much she cares about you,” I lectured, not knowing why he found it funny as he started to chuckle.“You’re a Kate advocate now,” he joked. “Look at you, being all serious about how she cares for me and all.”He placed a chaste kiss on my lips, and I couldn’t help but feel a tug of gui
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CARMEN“Is something the matter?” I jumped as Jasper caught me on the way to the bedroom reading the note that came with the plane ticket in shock.“Oh, it’s nothing too serious. I just got a birthday package from this aviation company that I was looking to get into a collaboration with soon, and they want me to test something out for them. It’s fine,” I lied with the fastest thing I could come up with, putting the note out of his sight.“You’re planning a collaboration?” He laughed. “How come you didn’t tell me about it? What aviation company?”“Oh, you wouldn’t know it. We’re working confidentially, so I can’t reveal even the tiniest detail about them until we’re sure about the entire thing.” I waved him off, turning around and making my way to the bedroom.“But I’m your husband. I’m not someone off the street. I’m not going to take your business and talk about it in public when you don’t want me to. Let me see, just to make sure you’re not getting scammed—”“Scammed?” I frowned, fa
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CARMENI wouldn’t have believed that the ex-girlfriend of my husband was the same woman standing in front of me if I hadn’t raised the phone to my ear with her on the other side of the phone.I recognized her voice, and I felt a sudden pang in my heart after she introduced herself. If she looked like that and Jasper treated her that way, I didn’t want to think of what he would do to a person like me.“It’s very nice to meet you, Emily,” I greeted with a smile on my face that I was very unsure of. I turned to Jasper, who was looking at me with caution as if warning me to desist from something that I would regret when we were back alone.“Did you invite them, Jasper? It was nice of you,” I said, a tight smile being pulled on my face as we all took our seats. The waiter returned to us, finally sharing the menu and waiting for us to make our orders.When our orders were taken, we all started to bond, everyone getting introduced to everybody else.“So, Carmen, how’s marriage to this one tre
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CARMEN“Carmen!” Jasper caught me downstairs before I could find a cab and leave for the house. “Carmen, why are you doing this?”“I don’t think you understand this; I don’t like it when you get controlling and manipulative—”“Manipulative?!” He raised his brows in shock at my words. “You’re calling me manipulative? I wanted to apologize and ask you to come back with me since everybody is here for you, and you choose to call me manipulative? When have I ever made you feel that way?”“We shouldn’t be fighting about this out in public,” I said, looking around in worry that we could be found out by strangers and passersby.“Let’s go back upstairs. I’m not going to force you if you don’t want it, of course, but it would really mean the whole world if we celebrated your birthday without a fight. We can do all of this tomorrow. We can talk about India, and we can talk about trusting each other more. You don’t want me sitting there all alone, do you? Besides, your food is there…”I sighed in
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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
