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IN LOVE WITH DAVE: MY HOT STEPBROTHER CHAPTER 103
CARMEN“What?” I asked as Jasper stared at me after his command for me to call Kate and tell her what I had been doing with Dave.“You heard me, Carmen, but if you want me to tell you again, I want you to call Kate right in front of me and tell her what you have been doing behind her back with her husband, who happens to be your stepbrother,” he repeated.“Jasper, you know I cannot do that right now. It’s not my place. If anything, Dave should be the one who tells her about it,” I told him, my tone pleading.“Carmen, do you want to get a divorce?” he asked, sounding over and done with my words.“Why are you asking me that, Jasper? You just said you would want us to scrap everything and have us start all over again,” I reminded.“And I told you the one thing for you to do in order for that to happen,” he countered.“She deserves to hear it from the right person, Jasper—”“And what about me?!” he yelled, interrupting me. “Do you think I deserved to hear it from your mother? Why didn’t y
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CARMEN“I’m coming back to the United States.”I didn’t know how to take the news. I couldn’t bring myself to think of what would happen the moment my parents set their eyes on each other again, and I had gotten used to my father being all the way in a different country, safe from whatever harm my mother had to inflict on him.“Why? I thought you would only come back after Steve is healed and everything,” I said as I wiped my tears.“That was the initial plan, but after Steve found out everything, I don’t think he can handle coming back here and seeing her after everything he knows. He wants her in prison before he comes back, and he wants his son fully protected as well as you, his stepdaughter.”I should have known that Steve would be completely shattered by the truth, but it had to be told to him. I imagined that it was better than dying without knowing that the person he trusted was the killer.“When do you think you can come?” I asked.“I was thinking of coming in five days, but
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CARMENMy hands were still trembling when I found the file that I had been searching for, tucking it under my arm placing the diagnostics back where I had seen it.“Oh, my God,” I whispered as hot tears welled in my eyes and I made no attempt at blinking them back or even trying to cover up for it.“Oh, my God!” I repeated when I got into the bedroom and slammed the door shut. I took a picture of what my father had requested for and sent it to him before collecting myself into a ball on the floor as I stared into space.If Jasper had HIV, then I most definitely had it as well.“How the hell did he get something like that?!” I yelled, knowing that there was nobody around to hear me.I took my phone and started to research the causes of HIV in people as if I didn’t know most of it.“God, I cannot do this.” I shook my head, standing up and grabbing my purse before storming out of the house and getting into a taxi.Even the driver could tell that something was wrong from the way he kept g
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CARMEN“It’s negative, Dave!” I announced when he picked up the phone, tears flowing down my eyes as I laughed.I didn’t notice how hard it had been for me to breathe until that moment when I realized that the air going into my lungs was easier in its passing.“Carmen,” he called my name as if he was also breathing a sigh of relief. I could hear him laughing at the other end of the phone, causing me to laugh with him.People walked past me, giving me a double take to figure out what was wrong or right with me.“Where are you right now? Can I come to pick you up? I feel like you’re drunk on all of these emotions—”“No, no!” I shook my head as if he could see me. “You don’t have to. I’ll go home and have a talk to Jasper about it. I think it’s going to affect his mental health in a bad way. With everything that’s been happening so far, I don’t think you and I should be seeing each other until it’s all settled.”“It’s completely fine. Just get home safe, okay?” he said.“Oh, I will,” I t
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CARMEN“I cheated, Carmen.”I froze in place, not sure what to do about what Jasper had just confessed to me or how to take it.“How drunk are you right now?” I asked as I stared at him, trying to see if he was trying to play a sick trick on me.“Do you think I’m saying this because I’m drunk? I don’t…I don’t know how to keep this away from you anymore. It feels all wrong. We have both done each other wrong.”I took steps away from him with a shake of my head in confusion.“I don’t understand. Who did you cheat with? What do you mean by that?” I blurted, my heart starting to heat up as if someone had set fire to it.“Carmen, you said you were not going to leave me,” he reminded.“Is that how you got sick?” I asked, and he replied with nothing but silence that told me that my guess was most likely correct.“When did you do it? Did you even know the person that well, or was it just a moment with someone you didn’t know?” I didn’t know what I would do with the information if I got it, bu
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CARMEN“Can I at least know what’s going on here?” Jasper asked, interrupting the glaring session between me and my mother. “What are you going to the police for?”“Oh, wouldn’t you like to know,” she replied with a smirk as she looked at me. “Should I tell him what you did, Carmen, or are you going to give me what I want?”Who was to say that she would not blurt everything out to Jasper as soon as she had the number.“I trusted you to keep quiet about something once. How should I trust you again when everything you have done is break it?” I asked.“Spare me that nonsense, Carmen. It was only right for your husband to know that you have been sleeping with your brother, but this… This doesn’t have to be something that he knows about,” she negotiated.“If you go to the police for something that I did in my defence, I will go to the police and tell them about something you did on purpose, and I’m sure Steve would be glad to back me up,” I threatened back, causing her eyes to go wide.“Ca
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CARMEN“What are you talking about? My mother is missing, not dead,” Jasper protested as he was read his Miranda rights and was being taken out of the house.“She’s not dead,” I told them with surety, not sure whether to tell them that I had proof of that or not, but the cops all looked at me with pitiful expressions, as if they knew something I didn’t.“I need my lawyer,” Jasper muttered when they led him into the car, and I assured him that I would be with him as soon as possible.I ran into the house to grab my phone and call Mariah to ask her what was happening, but the minute someone picked up the phone, I knew that something was wrong.It was Solene on the other end of the phone, sobbing so much that my heart slowly started to tear open and bleed into my stomach.“Solene, tell me what happened. They just arrested Jasper, and they kept saying that Mariah was murdered. I don’t think I understand. Can you give her the phone?” I asked, not knowing why tears were filling my eyes but
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CARMEN“Are you sure, Mrs. Hayes? The footage was quite graphic to watch, even for Jasper and Frank. You might not want—”“I want to see the footage, and I want to figure out if I can identify the people in it. I could even testify if it turns out to be Jasper.” I shrugged.At the opportunity, the detectives looked at each other and silently agreed to it as it would be an added advantage to them as well.“I’ll come as well,” Solene volunteered, standing up and leaving the house as we went back to the police department.My heart was up in my throat the closer we got to the room where they would show us the footage, and I had the sudden urge to turn around and bail. How could I possibly watch a video of Mariah being thrown off a bridge?I felt Solene snake her fingers around my hand.“It’s going to be fine. I’ll hold your hand throughout. It doesn’t have to be hard for us to do this,” she encouraged, and something told me she needed those words more than I did.“It’s going to be fine,”
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