Lahat ng Kabanata ng IN LOVE WITH DAVE: MY HOT STEPBROTHER: Kabanata 91 - Kabanata 100

CARMEN“We need to talk,” I said to Dave as he picked up the phone later that afternoon.“I thought you’d never want to speak about anything again,” he chuckled in response. “Do you have anywhere in mind for us to meet? I’m not as busy right now, and Kate is out.”“Meet me at The Tavern, the restaurant almost at the end of town. I’m right there, and this has to do with your father,” I added for him to know how serious it was and attend to me as fast as possible.I could hear shuffling in the background as he asked with a serious tone, “What about my father?”“He asked me to give something to you,” I answered cryptically, and I could hear the slight jiggle of keys to tell me that he was already on his way.“I’ll be there in about thirty minutes or so,” he assured me, hanging up.He arrived in twenty-three minutes, a sign that he must have passed the speed limits in some places and there was less jammed traffic.He sat in front of me with wide, curious eyes, and I almost laughed at how

CARMEN“Please, hold on for a second. I need to make an important call,” I said to the taxi driver as I pulled out my phone and dialed Mariah’s number with my heart in my throat as the detectives walked around.“Carmen, are is that you?” Mariah asked after picking up the phone.“Yes, I’m right in front of the house, but there are detectives loitering around. They’re definitely going to recognize me if I come out of the car, and they might start to suspect something if nobody gets out of the car.”“I’ll get the garage door open. You can get off in the garage without being seen,” she said, hanging up.In the next few seconds, the door to the garage opened and I convinced the driver to take me in there, to which he grumbled out that I would have to pay him extra for his time.The garage door was lowered just enough for me to get out of the car and pay the driver without being seen as a door on the side of the wall connecting the garage to the house opened.A young woman who looked to be

CARMENMariah was going to get caught – that was the one thing I kept telling myself after the detectives had mentioned getting a search warrant for Solene’s house.“The warrant is going to be difficult to get,” Detective Johnson informed us. “We don’t have something concrete to prove that they’re hiding something very huge. As the officers who had been there said, they might just be an ordinary mother with her college daughter, who must have been intimidated by all of the people wandering around in the neighborhood and probably told the taxi driver to take her into the garage for extra safety.”“They also mentioned that there was another car in the garage,” the second detective mentioned, causing my heart to skip a beat. Of course they had seen the Mini Cooper.If they decided to check the security cameras’ new footages from that day, they would notice the car pulling out of the garage, and they could possibly trace it back to me.“If her mother had a car and was at home, why didn’t

CARMEN“What are you doing here without me?” Jasper asked, raising his brows at me and shifting his gaze between me and Detective Johnson.“Oh, I wanted to get some new information on the case. I thought you would be a little busy,” I made an excuse, but it was obvious to Jasper that I was lying.“You know I will never be too busy to get new information on my mother’s case. Did you come here to report something that you just found out?” He stepped forward, standing directly in front of me.“She didn’t, Mr. Hayes. You know that we wouldn’t find a new development without telling you about it. You’re her son, one of her two closest relatives,” Detective Johnson stepped in with a smile, helping me out of the money situation.“I think I should head out now,” I said, side stepping him and starting to walk away from him when he held me by the hand, causing me to stop.“Why don’t we just go together?” he offered.“I’m going to see my mother,” I responded, wringing my arm out of his grip.Once

CARMEN“Mom!” I whispered as aggressively as I could to get her attention and stop her from going on with the call she was currently on with Kate, but she stepped away from me and walked off.“How are you doing? Are you at home right now?” She questioned Kate, and I grabbed on to her hand until she looked at me so that I could shake my head and let her know that telling Kate about it would be a big mistake.“Are you busy?” She stared at me this time, firm and silently telling me that she was going to do it and there was nothing I could do to stop her.“No, I just wanted to find out if you had the time to come over to the house. There’s something important that Carmen and I would like to talk to you about.”My eyes widened when she said that, and I shook my head, but it was already done late. She was now smiling as Kate replied to the offer.“Yes, Carmen is here,” she confirmed.As soon as she hung up, she gave me her full attention and cocked her head to the side.“What? Did you reall