Becky's Doll

Chapter 34

Recap:

Hailey paused before shouting again. I watched her dumbfounded.

"You wanted to know who killed your father. Well then! Listen! It was me."

"It was me who killed your father. It was me who killed Jane's husband. It was me who killed Geiger Martin.

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THE AIR WAS SUCKED out of me. Never did I think Hailey was Geiger Martin's killer. It never struck me. I watched her slack jawed as she sobbed uncontrollably, apologising to me for killing a man I never knew but was strongly related to. But now that she said it, everything felt connected.

"I had no other choice. I was engaged to him and when I told him that I was pregnant. He was adamant on aborting you. But I wanted to keep you. I had no financial support to take care of a baby and that put me into mental depression. So, Bethany and Jill persuaded me to talk to him and change his mind. They came along with me for support. I tried every way possible to change his mind but he wasn't even ready to provide me with money. Finally, he told me that he was married to another woman," She explained.

"I felt as if the whole world had crashed before me. I was engaged to a married man. He was my boyfriend for two years and he never bothered to break it off with me or inform me about his marriage. Your father- he cheated on both of us - Jane and me. I was unaware of all this. He kept me in the dark. I felt very angered for being used that way. I don't know what came over me when I took that knife and plunged it into his stomach. At the moment he fell to the ground, what I felt was satisfaction. I fell unconscious right after that, Bethany and Jill disposed off the dead body to save me," She sobbed.

Realisation dawned on me, even if I couldn't grasp most of the things she confessed. Jane was merely taking revenge for killing her husband. Revenge on the people who killed her husband- Bethany, Jill and Hailey. She got three dolls made, that looked like Bethany, Jill and...

"You are the third one," I whispered in realisation. Hailey was the third missing doll. As ghosts can't kill, she had distributed the dolls to other people and designated them as the killer. Jane got someone to help her out. Hailey's doll is missing. And if someone finds it then that means someone is after her life. But who? Hailey blinked rapidly at me looking puzzled before resuming her explanation.

"Because of Bethany and Jill's quick thinking I was saved that day. I met your dad and we moved away to Scotland. You were born and we were quite happy, until I started receiving anonymous messages that threatened Kyle and your lives. I was scared and it took me two years to figure out that it was his wife, Jane who was doing it. For years, she continued her torturing. She kept on saying that 'I am watching you'. I was freaked out. But one day it mysteriously stopped and I thought everything was back to normal."

"I came to know that she was killed in a fire accident. I felt relieved. But no, I was wrong. Her tortures became even more wilder and strange. She haunted me as a ghost!" She started crying. I was speechless. She started shaking vigorously.

"I am so sorry, Allison. Please forgive me. As you grew up, I was so afraid to look into your eyes. It reminded me so much of your father. I was scared that one day you would just stand up and accuse me for killing him. I spent all these years thinking of an apt reply to give you, if you ever asked me. What sort of mother have I been to you? I killed him so that I could love you more and keep both of us safe. And what good did it do? I put us both into more trouble and I can't even look straight into your eyes," She said, forcing a hoarse laugh but it ended up being a choked sob.