Summary

In Chapter 52, Scarlett and her group of friends join Zach and Tallulah at their table. Everyone gets drunk and takes drugs, and Scarlett proposes a pool party. Tallulah wants to go home. She can tell that Zach is furious and that he hates the interlopers, but he insists on going along with them to spite her. In Chapter 53, Shaun’s young children come to visit. His daughter notices the strange smell in the cottage that Sophie has been trying to eliminate since they moved in. Sophie passes on her suspicions about the staircase and the lever in the picture, at which Kim confirms that the police can now get a warrant to search Dark Place. In Chapter 54, Tallulah slips away from the others around the swimming pool, but Zach comes to find her in the house. They argue, and she tells him the...