CHAPTER 81

CARMEN

As I accompanied my father to the hospital a few hours later for his very last shot of treatment that he had been getting to help him recover, the thought of my mother working with Jasper did not leave my mind for a second.

That would explain why Jasper was quick to call my mother and find out about the aviation company lie that I had made up. Perhaps they had always been in contact.

“Do you think it’s possible that she would be working with him? I mean, in the sense that he hits me. Do you seriously believe that she knows about it and is in full support of it?” I asked my father.

“I can’t say for sure, but it’s not something I would put past her. She has surprised me a lot over the years that I just don’t think this would be the most outrageous thing she has done,” he replied.

I saw the sense in what he was saying, especially after what had happened with the chef and the video she had recorded, but there was something holding me back from believing that my mother could be that