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“He wanted to hurt my baby,” she scowls.
“Ford?”
“Ford?” She looks up at me then laughs coldly. “No. Nothim. He’s the devil’s spawn.”
“Jesus fucking Christ,” Beast mutters under his breath, but Mary doesn’t seem to hear Beast, let alone acknowledge that he’s in the room.
“He wanted to hurt my baby!” she repeats.
“Why?” I press.
“I stabbed him, over and over and over again,” she garbles. “I made sure he was good and dead. He’ll never hurt my baby now. Never.”
“Mary, listen, who are we talking about?Whatbaby?” I press.
“She’s such a beauty…” her voice trails off as she stares at the doll in her arms, a lone tear leaks from her eye and tracks down her nose, dripping onto the doll’s face.
“She?” I glance up at Beast, confusion furrowing my brow. Ford never mentioned a younger sibling, and Cleveland didn’t mention anything about anyone else being at her flat, let alone a baby.
“She was such a happy,happybaby. But she’s gone now. She’s gone,” she wails, clutching the doll tighter. If it was a real baby, I’d be worried she was suffocating it right now.
“Man, this is fucked-up,” Beast murmurs, watching this play out with a frown.
“Rodriguez tried to take your baby?” I ask, knowing that she’s clearly still under the influence of drugs, despite seeming way more lucid than she has been so far tonight.
“Not him,” she spits. “That bastard!”
“Who, the King?” I question, glancing up at Beast who is clearly just as confused as I am.
“No.Carter.”
Carter?
My heart stops beating. My lungs ice over.
The fucking world stops spinning.
“You had a baby with Carter?” I eventually manage to ask, my voice so soft it’s a wonder she even hears my question.
“He took her from me!” Mary spits, her leg bouncing up and down in agitation.
“Please no…” I whisper out, my throat tightening as I think about how I might have another sibling out there that my dad hasn’t told me about. “CarterDavidson?”
“Yes, you know him?” Mary asks me, her eyes narrowing as she looks up from the doll and really focuses on my face for the first time this evening. “Wait…” Her voice trails off and I wince at the look in her eyes. It’s as though she's seen a ghost.
“Mary?” The way she’s looking at me, the way she searches my face makes every single alarm bell inside of me go off. “Mary, what is it?” I ask, my mouth dry, my voice hoarse.
This can’t be my…
“Kitty Kat? Is that you?”
“Kitty Kat?” I question, shaking my head in a vain attempt to clear these intrusive thoughts. I don’t like the way she’s looking at me. I don’t like the way this is going. I don’t like any of it.
“Oh fuck!’ Beast exclaims as my head snaps around to look at him.
“No!” I hold my hands up. “She can’t be!” I hiss, refusing to believe it.
“It’s you, isn’t it?” Mary says, and I can see how she fights the effects of the drug she’s taken as she stares at me.
