CHAPTER 116

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