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She handed me a folder. “Study the suspects as much as possible before you leave.”
I shook my head but opened the folder. We’d taken all the guys’ headshots off the bulletin board in the secret lair. Just in case Axel visited again. I stared at the pictures of the different suspects. I had no idea who my kiss thief was. But I was about to find out.
***
The car was eerily quiet as Porter drove us to Odegaard.
My mom had barely said two words to me since she’d gotten in the car. But she’d sighed a few times while staring out the window.
It seemed like she was disappointed in me for some reason.
“Scar, can you hear me?” RJ’s voice sounded in my earpiece.
I jumped.
“If you can hear me, say: ‘Baby doll’s a go.’ ”
I reached up and touched the earpiece that was hidden beneath my hair. “Baby doll’s a go,” I said.
“What?” my mom asked.
I cleared my throat. “Nothing.”
She just stared at me.
“I wanted to tell you that I got rid of some of my baby dolls. While switching rooms.”
“Oh. I wish you’d told me. We could have given them to Nora and Chloe.”
I laughed. “Mom, Nora and Chloe are too old for dolls.” They’d be going to high school next year. And just because I’d still played with dolls until I was 13 didn’t mean everyone did. Uncle Matt and Uncle Mason’s daughters seemed way cooler than me when I was their age.
“Well Alora then. Or Nigel’s daughters.”
“I didn’t throw them out. I have them in a bag. I’ll drop them off at Uncle Matt’s sometime soon.”
My mom smiled. “Perfect. But it feels like just yesterday that you and Sophie were still playing with dolls. Making them run around the room. And if I recall correctly, your dolls always dated boys named Axel.”
“Yeah.” I shrugged. “It was all make-believe.”
My mom’s eyebrows pulled together.
And then I heard RJ clear his throat in my ear.
I turned away from my mom and stared out the window.
“According to your earpiece’s GPS you are two blocks away from Odegaard,” RJ said. “Is everyone ready? Don’t respond, baby doll. I already know you can hear me. And you made that conversation very weird with your mom. But everyone else. Are you guys ready and in place in your disguises?”
Seriously...what disguises?
“Ready,” Sophie said.
“Ready,” Liam said.
And then there was silence.
“Jacob, are you ready?” RJ asked.
Silence.
