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CARMEN“I’m getting married to Jasper right after I graduate high school.”Dave looked up from the book he had been pretending to read ever since I walked into the dining room and found him sitting there on his own.“I don’t understand.” He shook his head, a frown of genuine confusion stuck on his face.“It’s been settled between me and my mother.” I sat beside him so that I could lower my voice and the staff walking around would not have to hear the conversation.“You told me you were going to convince her. You said you wouldn’t marry him,” he said, staring at me as though I had committed the ultimate act of betrayal.“I know what I said, Dave, but I also know that I have certain responsibilities. There are things I’m supposed to do for my sake as well as that of my mom,” I spat out, just as I had rehearsed for a better part of the morning.“And getting married to Jasper is one of them?” He raised his brows.“I believe so, yes.” I nodded, looking down as I served myself food and did
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CARMENI stared at Dave, deciphering his facial expression and looking for one sign that told me he was joking with me.“Get married to Jasper, Carmen,” he said again as if reading my mind and trying to prove to me that his words were anything but punchlines.“What are you talking about, Dave? Why should I get married to Jasper all of a sudden? It doesn’t make sense.” I shook my head, placing my hand against the doorknob just in case he suggested something even more outrageous so that I could leave without having to hear it.“Just hear me out, Carmen.” He raised his hands as if signalling me to calm down. “If you get married to Jasper, what hold would she have on you? Agreeing to the wedding and going through with it will only put her guard down, and she wouldn’t even think I know about the video, let alone have plans to delete it.”“And what about the marriage? You delete the video and I’m stuck married to Jasper?” I questioned.“Six months. You can wait it out for six months, and you
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CARMEN“Oh, my goodness! Why didn’t you tell us this sooner?!” Mom gasped, standing up and pulling Kate into a hug. “I can’t believe this! It’s such a small world. We’re all connected in one way or another, don’t you think?”“That’s right,” Kate replied with a bright smile on her face.“This isn’t something I expected this soon, really,” Steve Wilmer laughed, standing up and taking Kate’s hand in his. “My son never got along well with girls. At a point in his life, I thought he was terrified of girls, even.”Everyone laughed at his joke.“You’re welcome, Kate. You know, Kate Wilmer does seem like the perfect fit,” Steve said.Kate looked down at the floor, her cheeks turning an aggressive shade of red.“Are you too shocked to say something, Carmen?” Mom questioned me.I was the only one who was not standing and joining in on the small gathering of celebrators.“I’m sure even your children will be best of friends, just like you two were when you were little. In fact, I suggest you both
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CARMEN“What the fuck, Dave?!” I raised my hands in the air as soon as Dave and I finally had a moment of privacy.It was late at night, Kate had returned to her house long ago, and he had pulled me out of the hallway and into one of the many bedrooms which didn’t have a specific use.“Lower your voice, Carmen,” he warned.“Why should I? Do you think people are going to suspect us for being in here together? It’ll be hard for them to have solid suspicions, trust me. I mean, I’m getting married soon, and you’re dating my childhood friend, Kate.” I didn’t mean for my words to come off as spiteful and bitter as they did, but I couldn’t help it.“I know how you must feel right now, Carmen.” He tried to reach for my shoulder, but I stepped away. “Whatever you think this is, it’s far from what it really is.”“Okay, let me take a wild guess.” I crossed my arms. “You asked me out to prom, you had sex with me and got your fun, you found out that I’m your stepsister, then you went along to slee
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CARMEN“We haven’t talked in quite a while, Carmen.” Frank took one step towards me, causing me to take large steps backwards.I started to hyperventilate, looking around and calming myself down as I assured myself that there were people around us. My mother was only one scream away; he couldn’t possibly try anything funny in public.“What do you want from me?” I demanded.“Not much. In fact, it’s the smallest favour I think I’ll ever ask of a person.” He stopped walking towards me as he noticed that some people, as they walked past us, stared at us longer than he probably would like.“Just tell me what you want and leave me alone,” I ordered.“You remember me from that night, don’t you?” he asked.“How could I forget? You perverted piece of—”“As you can already tell, I have a family that I need to protect,” he said. “My wife is bedridden. She’s been bedridden for a while now, and I am all my son has as a standing parent.”I almost scoffed at the pity party he was trying to throw, wa
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CARMEN“Will you be free tomorrow?” I asked Jasper out of the blue when he dropped us off at home. My mother had gone out of the car, still having a conversation with Frank.“Does this mean what I think it means?” Jasper grinned. “Carmen Wilmer is asking me out on a date?”“My last name is Cartier,” I corrected him. “And is it such a bad thing to ask you out on a date now?”I figured that if I was going to get through this, there was only one way – getting to know the man I would be spending my life with. From the way things were being arranged and thrown in my face, I had a feeling that I would be married to Jasper for longer than six months as Dave had assured me.“I just wanted to expect it from you.” He shrugged. “By the way, I will definitely be free tomorrow. My schedule isn’t exactly tight enough that I can’t make adjustments or go around it.”“Good. I’ll be ready by twelve. We can have the whole day to ourselves. I need to know who I’ll be getting engaged and married to, right
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CARMEN“Are you out of your mind?!”Dave’s eyes widened, and he placed his palm over my mouth to keep me from making a lot of noise and drawing attention.“Keep it down, Carmen. The last thing we want is for someone to see us. We’ll be put under the radar. The more times they start to see us together, the more suspicious they’ll get. I need you to hear me out for a minute, okay?”I nodded, defeated.He finally let of me, and I took a deep breath as I whispered: “Are you insane? What do you mean by that? We can’t just kidnap her, what is wrong with you? Has this been your plan all along?”He folded his arms, watching me as I threw questions at him from the left and right.“Are you done?” he asked when I fell quiet. “Are you going to let me tell you what the whole idea entails now?”“I won’t be done if you keep talking about getting my mother kidnapped. What kind of an idea is that anyway?”“When I said we could get her kidnapped, I didn’t mean hiring a bunch of thugs and capturing her
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CARMENThe world seemed to stop when Jasper kissed me, but it wasn’t because I enjoyed the kiss.As his lips grazed mine, his tongue getting shoved down my throat, images started to flood my head. Images of everything I had shared with Dave – and then, they all disappeared.I opened my eyes and broke the contact with Jasper, taking a deep breath and moving away from him even though we were at the top of a Ferris wheel, and there was no taking back what had just happened.“I’m sorry. I just…I didn’t want to leave without having to do that first. I really wish you would open up to me completely without having to run away from me, Carmen. I don’t understand you and why you pull me close one day and push me away the next.”I could have told him that I didn’t understand why either. I knew why, but I didn’t understand it. I knew that I was involved in a closeted affair with my stepbrother, which was abominable enough to even think about. I knew that even though my stepbrother and I had part
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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
