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IN LOVE WITH DAVE: MY HOT STEPBROTHER CHAPTER 28
CARMENDave and I glanced at each other, both looking as if we wanted to truly confirm that we had heard the same thing from his father.“I don’t understand, Dad,” Dave said. “Why would you want to plan for a wedding in a short time with your health like this? You’re only going to add more stress to the one you already have.”“I don’t have an inch of stress in my body, son,” Steve said. “I realized how unpredictable life is. I could have died, Dave. What if I had not woken up?”“You can’t say that.” I shook my head at his words. He had woken up, and he was right there – alive.“Yes, I can, Carmen,” he argued. “We have nobody to tell us when our time will be up, and I don’t want to end up getting to the finish line without seeing my son and my daughter getting married. It just doesn’t right with me to think about it.”His idea didn’t sit right with me and Dave as well, but I couldn’t say a thing. Steve was not in the best health condition, and I couldn’t fault him for wanting something
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CARMENThe people in the restaurant were clapping and cheering, a few of them pulling out their phones to record the moment that they believed to be beautiful.I thought it was a nightmare, all of their attention on us and the possibility of this getting out.I stared at Jasper and the ring he held in his hands. My jaw was dropped, and there was not a thing I could tell him that would convey just how horrified I was by the situation he had put me in.“What are you doing, Jasper?” I whispered, glancing around once more before putting all my attention on the man in front of me.“Taking control of my life and not letting someone take over my life for me. I figured that if I proposed, it would feel less like the duty I’m supposed to perform; think about it.”Through my panic, I tried to see the sense in what he was saying, and it seemed like a stretch. He was only proposing because the marriage was inevitable. His form of taking control was only trying to take the wheels but still lead us
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CARMENI stared at the comment for a long time, almost as if I thought that if I stared long enough, the comment would disappear.Nobody had replied to the allegations, but it had about seventeen likes.If it was a mere allegation, I still didn’t know how to feel about it. How could this person up and say that without prior suspicion? Maybe the person was making speculations about me and Dave, but what about the fact that they were specific about my mother being behind it?“Crap,” I muttered to myself as I reported the comment, hoping for it to be taken down.I dialled Dave’s number, pacing restlessly. Luckily, he picked up the phone.“What’s wrong, Carmen? I already said we’ll talk about—”“Dave, I found something. I’ll send it to you now. Call me when you get it,” I announced, hanging up and rushing to take a screenshot of the comment before they decided to delete it due to my report, sending the picture to Dave and waiting for him to call me back to tell me what he thought.My phon
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CARMENDave and I had not spoken to each other in private for a week.These days, he seemed to be more occupied with Kate. Kate’s little sister, Nova, was back from her trip to Paris and was being introduced to us soon as we would all be having dinner together with their family, along with Jasper and Frank.My mom was going around the house, making sure everything was in order as we had been informed that Nova did not hesitate to comment on something she didn’t like.“I just don’t understand why we’re doing this whole thing,” Dave spoke up, gesturing at the entire table which was filled with every food I could think of from different countries. “Don’t you think it’s a little overboard?”“Nonsense!” Steve argued. “It’s the first time we’re all going to be together, complete. There’s no such thing as overboard here.”Dave had been annoyed about something for the past few days, but I was not going to ask him. It would only put more pressure on him, especially if he didn’t want to talk to
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CARMEN“Nova!” Mrs. Pierce scolded her daughter, nudging her with her elbow. “Why would you say something like that?”“I’m not the one who said it!” Nova argued in her defence. “I said it was a rumour. All they have to do is tell us if it’s true or not.”As if all the adults lost their sense of self at the words of a seventeen-year-old, they all shared their gazes between me, Kate, and Dave, waiting for us to confirm what was true and what was not.“Can you all please tell her what the issue is and let her give us a moment to catch our breaths?” Mr. Pierce said. “She is never going to let us live if you don’t tell her what is true and what isn’t.”I was the first to speak up, tired of everyone at the table and everything.“Nothing happened between me and Dave, okay? We were good friends in school and nothing else. In fact, we’ve grown distant, just the way your sister and I grew distant,” I explained, giving Nova a tight smile that threatened to split my face in half.“She’s right,” m
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CARMENI couldn’t breathe. I had to claw at my throat to draw up air in short gasps and pants.“No, no, no, this… this isn’t right,” I muttered to myself, scrolling down on the news piece, hoping to see grainy pictures from a prom that wasn’t ours so that we would deflect those rumours immediately, but my fingers stopped scrolling at one of the many pictures attached to the article. It was obviously me and Dave, and even we couldn’t deny that.How did they get a hold of those pictures?I had avoided Dave for long enough; we had to talk about it.Before I could stand up and head to Dave’s room, there were three rapid knocks on my door.I rushed to open it, knowing it could be one person.“Have you seen this—”“Get in!” I pulled him into the room, slamming the door and he shoved his phone in my face, making me stare at the same article I had just read.“Someone sent a link of this to me. It’s not a big broadcasting company, so it hasn’t spread like wildfire, but I know it will. How did
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CARMENKate was the perfect suspect. She was there on the night of senior year prom, so there was a chance that she could have taken the pictures. Even though Dave had told everyone that we were not each other’s dates but had just one dance together, Kate knew for a fact that Dave was my date.Nobody would believe that she would do such a thing. She had no reason to, they would think, but what if she already knew about me and Dave? She was the first person on my mind.But Dave was now looking at me as if I had said the most unfunny joke known to man.“Kate? Kate is your suspect, of all people we know?” he chuckled, but he soon realized that I was not making a joke about it. “You’re serious about that?”“Come on, Dave!” I tried to get him to see my point. “Kate knew about it. She was there at prom, and she knew we were there with each other. She even had to confirm it from me. Don’t even get me started on everything Nova was trying to pull when we were all having dinner—”“We can’t use
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CARMENI had never wanted to run away from a place as much as I felt the need to run away from the restaurant I had just stepped into.I could see Jasper and Dave sitting in the corner of the restaurant, having a heated conversation. The first person to look up in the direction of the door and see me was Jasper.He beckoned me over with a serious look on his face, and I walked towards them as slowly as possible, breathing deeply.“What’s going on here?” I asked with as much casual air as I could give off, hoping that they wouldn’t sense my nervousness like a shark would sense blood in the ocean, especially Jasper.“That is what we’re both trying to figure out, Carmen. What is going on?” Jasper repeated the question, staring at me as if expecting an answer.I glanced at Dave, trying to gauge if Jasper was talking about what I thought he was talking about, but Dave gave off nothing. He only stared at me the same way that Jasper was, almost having me believe that they were both toying wi
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