CHAPTER 104

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