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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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CARMENBoth Dave and Jasper were now staring at me after my accusation, one in utter shock and the other in feigned confusion.“What the hell are you talking about?” Jasper asked me, letting go of Dave’s shirt to allow himself to take a proper look at me. “How dare you accuse me of something so senseless and irrational?”“Carmen, what are you talking about? Kate couldn’t have possibly done that,” Dave said.“I saw the footage. I know what I saw. The police may have been confused by the woman in the video, but I knew her as soon as I saw her. What were you doing with Kate that night, and why did you two kill your mother?!” I asked again.“I didn’t kill her!” he screamed in response. “You, of all people, should know just how worried sick I was when I was searching for her! What is your fucking problem?”Slowly, he looked between Dave and I, and then he started to laugh.“Now I totally understand what’s going on here.” He pointed his index finger between us. “This was all a plan between
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CARMEN“I know who those people are, in the footage,” I said to Detective Johnson as soon as he picked the phone, almost hearing the sigh of relief he gave to know that I was okay and ready to help him out with the investigation.“Mrs. Hayes, thank you for reaching out. You said you know these people. The video does not have the best quality, so I need you to be sure of what you’re going to be telling me, okay? If you need to watch the video one more time—”“I don’t,” I interrupted. “I know what I saw, and I can identify both the man and the woman.”“Would you like to come over to the station to answer our questions and tell us more, or do we have to come over?” he questioned.“I don’t think I can manage to come back there right now. I’ll send the address of the hotel where I’ll be staying for a little while,” I suggested, and he immediately agreed.When I texted the address, he assured me that they would be over in a few minutes. I could barely sit still, so I walked over to the balc
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CARMEN“You want a divorce from me all of a sudden?” Jasper scoffed over the phone after I announced my intention of leaving him. “You know I didn’t do what you’re accusing me of doing, right? You’re using this as an opportunity to leave.”“Stop trying to manipulate the truth, Jasper. I know what I saw. I want a divorce, and I would really appreciate it if you didn’t disagree with me on this. If you think about it, you would also realize that this is not going to work out,” I lectured.“Draw up your papers if that’s what you want, Carmen,” he encouraged. “If you end up regretting it, that will be your cross to carry.”“I’ll send the papers to you when I get in contact with a lawyer,” I informed him, hanging up and collapsing on the bed as I wondered what would become of everyone when the autopsy reports were released.~I ran into my father’s arms at the airport where I went to pick him up, almost being drawn to tears at the fact that I was seeing him again and the reminder that he wa
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CARMENI couldn’t give an accurate account of everything that had been happening for the past twenty-four hours. I had been in a total daze since the police arrived at the door of my hotel room and arrested me.“The video evidence we have against her is quite incriminating,” Detective Johnson said, arguing it out with Evan – the attorney that my father had pulled strings to get on my side.“As much as I would like to sit here and lecture you on how poorly developed that video and the story behind it is, I’d prefer that you and your team do an analysis on the phone to recover lost files. My client did not do this because she wanted to,” Evan explained.It was not a question of whether I was guilty or not, that much was obvious since the video my mother had submitted to the police had my face in it. It was now a matter of if I really did it in self-defense.“We’re doing just that. Carmen, can you explain your side of the story. You have been quiet since you were brought here yesterday.
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CARMEN“Good morning, Mrs. Hayes,” Detective Johnson greeted as I sat in the room where they were about to play the new footage for me to identify the people in the video as who I thought they were.“Good morning,” I replied, not only anxious about what I was about to watch but abashed at the fact that he now knew that I was also involved in a murder case of my own.There was not much talking involved. He played the footage as soon as possible, and it was clearer this time and from a different angle.“Are these still the people you suspect them to be? We can see that Jasper Hayes really did push his mother off the bridge, but the woman. Is that Kate?” he asked me.“I have never been surer of anything else in my life. The woman who hit her on the head with a rock is Kate,” I confirmed, nodding my head.“Now, we want you to take another look at this footage of them that we got from a grocery store just down by the river,” he said, using a remote to switch the clip.My eyes almost popped
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CARMEN“The results just came in, Carmen,” Dave informed me over the phone. “I don’t have the sickness. Now, can you tell me what the hell is going on and why everyone seems to be on their toes these days?”In that moment, I wished to be him – unknowing to everything that was going on around him and completely out of the loop instead of being the center of it.“When’s the last time you and Kate slept with each other? I know this is invasive of me, but I just need to know before I tell you what I just found out,” I inquired.“It’s been a while, honestly. I even think it’s been months,” he confessed.“Dave, Kate and Jasper have been seeing each other.”He wasn’t standing in front of me, so I could only imagine his thick eyebrows coming together in a frown of confusion as he tried to figure out what he had just heard me say.“What do you mean, seeing each other? You told me that they both killed Jasper’s mother, and now…” I could hear every bit of the understandable doubt in his tone.“I
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