Mimic by Yolanda Olson & C.a rene

Author:Yolanda Olson & C.a rene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yolanda Olson

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“Her.”

Relief. It’s quick as my shoulders collapse and my knees threaten to buckle beneath the weight. He wants her. He wants to trade my sweet wife for my damaged daughter, and there’s not a single thought that’s preventing me from accepting the deal.

“Daddy?” Her voice is soft. I’m no longer Pollyx in front of this young man, her friend. “He can’t have me, Daddy. Besides, he’s lying. Heidi is dead.”

I turn on Beverly, her face a mask of indignant rage, and covered in blood—Tanner’s blood. “It was you.” I always had a feeling she was the one who ran her mother off, but I didn’t think she went as far as to kill her. But looking around our house and the rising body count, I’d be stupid not to.

“Pollyx.” Her voice hardens. I’m Pollyx again. “I won’t go with Colby.”

“How do you know him?” I shoot the young man a look over my shoulder and find him peering around us, looking into the kitchen.

“I met him in town. He looks like Lyx.” Her chin trembles. “Heidi killed Lyx.”

Understanding dawns on me and horror quickly replaces it. Her fucking doll, the infant she carried around with only one eye. My eyes meet the stranger’s eye once again. I can see why she was drawn to him.

This could work.

“I know how much Lyx meant to you. I had no idea your mother—”

“Heidi,” she growls.

“Heidi,” I amend, “broke him. Is that why this boy is your friend?”

“Yes.” She gives a quick nod. “And he’s nice to me. I don’t hear him laughing whenever I walk by.”

“They don’t do that.” I shake my head, but my protest falls short. I don’t know if they do or not. I don’t usually accompany her around town.

“Cora is the only one who doesn’t.”

“I will take you away from here.” His voice is deep, laced with a quiet confidence, and I can’t help but see our similarities. He looks and acts much as I did long ago. “You don’t have to stay in a town where people make you feel like you don’t belong.”

“I don’t want to leave Dollywoodland.” Beverly pouts. “All my dollies are here.”

“You can make more with Colby,” I try to reason.

“No, she can’t,” Colby interjects, his voice hardening. “No more dolls, Beverly.”

She crosses her arms under her still naked breasts, the same ones she tried to entice me with earlier, and pouts. “I won’t leave.”

“You can find another hobby,” I suggest, not entirely sure why Colby won’t let her have mannequins. I look at him again, pleading with my eyes. “Why can’t she have mannequins?”

“Not all her dolls are mannequins,” he growls. “You can ask your wife all about it when we do the exchange.”

The clay.

My body runs cold as I look back into my daughter’s eyes. My flesh and blood, my little girl, is a cold-blooded murderer.

“What did you do?” My voice comes out in a hoarse whisper.

“You weren’t finding me any more dollies.” She shrugs, then her eyes flash with something akin to demonic.

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