CHAPTER 19

CARMEN

“I don’t think I understand.” I shook my head, confused. “What do you mean you didn’t find a video like that?”

“It’s not on the phone, Carmen,” he attempted to confirm once more, but I wasn’t buying it. It was just not possible.

“But she…” I paused, my mind taking me to a place of near impossibility. “Do you think she deleted it?”

Dave sighed, shaking his head. “If she’s using it against you, I don’t imagine that she would have deleted it so soon. Then again, you’re engaged to Jasper. If she has nothing to worry about anymore, maybe she did delete it.”

I looked towards my mom. She was going around, hugging people and sharing air kisses. If I tried to test her…

“I’m going to get information about it,” I informed Dave, heading for my mother before he could stop me.

“Mom,” I said to her just as she was picking up a glass of red wine from the tray of a butler.

“Oh, my darling daughter,” she mused, hugging me and laughing. She smelled like coconuts and wine, a contrast that seemed t