Summary

In Chapter 16, Mika has a nightmare that leads her to remember being drugged at Peter's apartment. She woke while Peter was raping her but could not fight. She noted the time on the clock – her life forever divided into “before and after” that moment. She wakes in a panic then reminds herself she is safe. Mika realizes Thomas and Penny will soon be boarding a plane. She rushes to find her keys, noting that Hana has a guest – a pretty young woman named Josephine. Mika does not find Penny and Thomas at the airport. Mika thinks about the hours after the rape. She did not report it, anticipating the questions that would make her seem complicit. She had hoped the lies she told Penny would prove that Mika had made something of her life after giving Penny up for adoption. Mika leaves Penny...