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CARMEN“You can’t eat the soup,” I said to Steve.“I don’t understand,” Mom commented in confusion, dropping the soup spoon in the bowl as she looked at me for an explanation. “What’s gotten into everybody?”I looked around at everyone sitting at the table, and they were looking at me with the same confusion that my mother had on her face.“Are you going to explain?” Steve demanded, now looking annoyed. I understood perfectly why he seemed completely done with everyone and their behaviours without giving an explanation.I couldn’t open my mouth and blurt out that he was possibly being poisoned by my mother. I had no idea how he would take it, or how anybody else would. I decided in my head that I had to confront my mother about it before anything, but Steve couldn’t eat that soup.I grabbed the bowl of soup from him with a tight-lipped smile as I said, “It wasn’t made properly. When my mom left me in the kitchen with it, I thought it needed a little bit of sugar, and I added some suga
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CARMEN“What?” My mom and I exclaimed at the same time after Dave’s announcement, bringing the attention of the people who had excused us.“Is everything okay?” Jasper asked, raising an eyebrow of concern at us.“We’re fine, thank you!” Mom replied before she went back to looking at Dave. “What do you mean by that? A life insurance? He didn’t tell me anything about that. Where did you get that information from?”“I am his son and his business partner. He feels obligated to tell me everything. He said he took one out recently because he’s afraid that whatever this illness is, it could kill him,” Dave explained.“No.” Mom shook her head, using her hands to cover her face as she chanted the single word of denial. “No, no, no, no. He can’t die. How could he say that? He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”“I didn’t want to believe it at first, but it’s Steve Wilmer we’re talking about here,” Dave said. “He barely goes to see a doctor whenever he’s sick, and he practically has to be for
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CARMENKate stared at me like a deer caught in the brightness of headlights, but she was quick and smart to smooth it out with a bright smile.“Carmen! What a pleasant surprise. What are you doing here?” She hugged me as tight as possible, only pulling away when I made the first move to get out of her arms.“I came here to get something tested. You know, regular checkups and all of that.” I waved off with feigned nonchalance. “And you? You used to be scared of hospitals, remember? What are you doing here all of a sudden?”“I used to be scared of hospitals when I was still a child. Now, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I have to come here once in a while. I came to get some test results for my parents while they’re away.” I could see her trying to smoothen the skirt of her dress, which was not even ruffled, but I didn’t want to point out how nervous she was. In fact, I was eager to leave.“I’ll see you around, yeah? With the whole honeymoon coming and everything else,” I reminded
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CARMEN“It’s not what you think at all,” I tried to defend myself to Frank, but he was not having it. “I just wanted to see if she could answer me. You should communicate with her normally, you know if you want her to get better.”“I don’t think you understand what’s going on here,” Frank said to me, his eyes narrowing as he shot me an angry look. “And I hate to be the one to break it to you, Carmen, but there is no getting better from here. Do you think her doctors haven’t tried? Or do you have a complex that makes you believe she’s only going to respond to you?”There was silence as he waited for an answer and I couldn’t give him one because I was not ready to reveal the truth to him just yet.“Do not try whatever it was that you just did here today. I’m not against speaking to her, but do not plant doubts in her head when she cannot even react to them,” he warned and finally walked away just as Terri was returning from her meeting with Emily.“Is there a problem?” She had a look of
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CARMENI stopped in my tracks, turning back to my mother and staring at her in utter disbelief. She stared back at me with pride, as if she had not just told me the worst thing that I could hear from her.“What do you still have the video for? You told me that you deleted it,” I pointed out, my tone holding accusation.“Well, I may have misspoke. Also, I had a suspicion that it could still come in handy sometime soon. I know how much you barely keep to your business, Carmen. This would have happened sooner or later, and it grieves me that it came sooner than I prepared for.”“So it’s true?” I scoffed. “You have been poisoning Steve?”“You wouldn’t understand,” she said and shook her head. “You’re barely twenty. I’m doing everything I can for you, I swear. I fear that the only time you’re going to realize this is when you have succeeded in putting us in trouble, or when I’m dead—”“Stop trying to manipulate me!” I yelled at her, walking back towards her.“Why are you doing this? Do you
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CARMENI stayed on the phone with Emily, and the silence passed after what she had just told me. My thoughts went to all of those times that I had seen Jasper inject his mother and how he had assured me that he was just doing his duty.“He can’t kill his mother, Emily. That’s not possible,” I denied with a shake of my head, praying for it to be untrue. If that really were the reason for Terri still being in that house, then what about me? How much danger was I in by living in that house?“I’m not going to argue with you about this, Carmen. My mother has warned me against talking to you about it, but I would really like to be of help in any way that I can. The one thing I can tell you right now is that you’re married to a raging psycho, and I really hope you don’t have an awful confrontation with him,” she said.My eyes trailed over the building for a second, and my body froze as I noticed the silhouette of someone through one of the upstairs windows, looking down at me – Jasper.“I ca
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CARMENI couldn’t tell if I wanted to hear the next words that Jasper would say, especially when he looked the way he did – panicked and barely even able to stand on his feet as he attempted to get off the bed.“What…what’s wrong with your mother, Jasper?” I stuttered, my heart thudding faster than I had ever felt it thud before.“Terri told me that she only wanted to make her some soup when she started to have strange seizures,” he reported, placing his phone to his ear as he started to dial a number with the SIM he had gotten from the airport.“Doctor Gerber, I need you to report to my house as soon as you possibly can. My mother is having a strange reaction to something, she’s alone with her caretaker, and I am all the way in Belize to drive her to the hospital by myself,” he said into the phone.In an attempt to calm him down, I headed for him and placed a soothing hand on his shoulder as I whispered calming words to him.“She’s going to be fine,” I gave my words of reassurance, b
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CARMEN“What the hell is going on?!” I shouted at Kate in panic as the other patrons of the restaurant started to look at us, some of them approaching us and calling to the attention of the people who worked at the restaurant. “You said there wouldn’t be any mistakes!”“That’s what they told me! Someone, please help me get him to a hospital!” Kate yelled, but people were already on it, lifting Dave and listening to different recommendations on the closest hospitals to where we were until they settled for one which was just down the street. “Where the fuck is the manager of this restaurant?!”A middle-aged man with wide eyes and a bald patch in the middle of his head ran towards us, breathing loudly with his mouth open as he scoped out the scene and tried to figure out what had just happened.“I am the manager of this restaurant, and I don’t know what—”“Sir, is this truly how you manage your restaurant?!” Kate snapped at him before he could finish his statement. “I was told after lots
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