Novels by Amara Dahlgren

Carmen’s POVI was almost done packing when Millie arrived, and I groaned internally. I really didn’t want her to find me here when she eventually chose to return.“Carmen,” she called remorsefully, but I didn’t respond to her.Instead, I concentrated on finishing up with the packing so that I wouldn’t stay here any minute longer, and as soon as I was done, I proceeded to roll my boxes out.But Millie stood by the door, deliberately preventing me from walking out.Hence, I had to speak to her.“Please, Millie, get out of my way,” I told her.“Carmen, please, let’s talk,” she pleaded.I scoffed out loud as rage fueled inside of me.“Talk?” I asked her, sounding as disgusted and infuriated as I was really feeling. “You really want me to stand here and talk to you?” I asked her.“It just happened!” Millie blurted. “I swear, I didn’t mean to continue seeing Terry, but…” she continued, but I was just too disgusted to listen to her.“He placed a gun on your head, didn’t he?” I asked her sar

Chase’s POV“Do you want me to come with you?” Terry asked me, sounding all protective.Even though he was berating me a few seconds ago for telling Carmen about his affair with Millie, he was still my Brother, and the moment we exchanged that look, he became who he had always been to me; my protector.I cleared my throat and said, “I don’t think there will be need for that,” and then shook my head.“Why not?” Terry asked. “We have always been in this together and you need someone like me with you,” he added.I touched him by his shoulder and squeezed it.“Whatever it is, I believe I can handle it,” I assured him.“What if…” Terry began to ask me but his voice trailed off.We both knew what he was going to ask.He was worried about me getting arrested; maybe the big league had prepared an arrest, but he didn’t say the words, or maybe he just couldn’t bring himself to saying them.“I will call you and let you know how it goes, Brother,” I told him.I wasn’t going to allow fear envelop

Chase’s POV“How could you, Chase?!” Terry barked at me.Cindy sat on my couch and watched us quietly.“Don’t ask me that,” I responded stubbornly.I would have gladly denied ever saying anything to Carmen, but it was pointless. Clearly, Carmen had done her findings after I told her.That girl was the nosiest person I had ever met!It was weird how she didn’t know who her father was all these years, and meanwhile, she would gladly become an FBI on someone else’s business.“I trusted you, Chase,” Terry said, sounding betrayed.The truth was that after leaving Carmen’s apartment last night, I had returned to my apartment, and for the first time, ordered a bottle of alcoholic wine and drank until I couldn’t feel the pain any longer.My career was over.I had just betrayed Terry because he did beg me not to say anything to Carmen. My life was in shambles already. Right in front of me, I saw it crumbling to the ground and I couldn’t do anything about it.It was either get drunk to stupor o

CarmenChase couldn’t be right, could he?Millie was having an affair with Terry after everything I told her that he had done to me? I couldn’t believe it.All night, I didn’t sleep a wink.I stayed awake with so many troubling thoughts. First of all, the story about Chase being a murderer who killed his own father in cold blood and an ex-convict, and then Millie being with someone who treated me cruelly.Nothing made sense.By morning, I was up already.It was Sunday, but I couldn’t wait, and so I called Millie. Thankfully, she picked up almost immediately.“Hi, Carmen, good morning,” she greeted me.“Shouldn’t you be home by now?” I asked her, and then I realized almost immediately that I shouldn’t have spoken in that tone.Millie could easily detect that I knew something, and if she did, she would be able to hide it even more, so I cleared my throat and tried again.“When are you getting back?” I asked her further.“Um, later tonight,” she answered cautiously.She was going to spe

Chase’s POVShowing up at Carmen’s apartment was a very silly thing to do, but I was here now, and I couldn’t go back.So, I knocked.Terry would eat me alive if he found out I came here, and worse, for something as trivial as seeing pictures of Carmen and Sean Noble at a private reservation at a restaurant for what seemed like a dinner date.I couldn’t believe that Carmen would stoop low to date Sean Noble!My blood was boiling so much when I saw the pictures making rounds on the internet that I couldn’t control my temper, or my actions.When Carmen opened the door and saw me, she was stunned to her bones.“Chase,” she said through gasped breath. “What are you doing here?” She asked me.“If you can show up at my house unannounced, then I can also do the same,” I said.And with that, I walked into Carmen’s living room. It didn’t seem like Millie was around, which was a good thing.Hopefully, no one would find out that I was ever here.“What do you want?” Carmen asked. “You know, it’s

Carmen’s POV“Meet me up at The Lounge’s restaurant right now. This is very important.”After ensuring that the message had delivered, I grabbed a cab and went to wait for Sean Noble at the restaurant. It wasn’t very far away from Steven Noble’s house, and so he shouldn’t waste time in showing up.It was late already, and I should be at my apartment, but after what I saw, I just couldn’t go to my apartment and act like I wasn’t disturbed. Lately, I had been seeing things that just kept making me restless, and I really wanted to figure things out, or maybe focusing on this was a way of escaping what I should be focusing on, which was my dad being Donny and deciding how to handle it.“Hi, good evening,” I greeted the waitress I met at the restaurant. “I would like to make a private reservation,” I told her.“Sure,” she responded.She proceeded to get the reservation, but she recognized me almost immediately and stopped.“Carmen Vega?” She asked even though she sounded certain.“I am s