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Beautiful Venom
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Chapters 12-20Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, child abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, antigay bias, sexual violence, rape, and sexual content.
Chapter 12 Summary: “Kane”
Kane drives to his parents’ house, Ravenswood Hill. The stone mansion looms when he arrives. His mother Helena Davenport greets him, but Kane treats her coldly. He has pushed her away over the past 15 years because she failed to intercede when his father Grant Davenport started abusing him. Believing Kane was a weakling, Grant abuses Kane to turn him into a powerful machine who might assume control of the Davenport family and business. Grant treated his brother Kayden the same way when he discovered Kayden was gay.
Kane meets with Grant, who is worried that the Osborns are trying to give Marcus Osborn, born outside of marriage, a position of power in Vencor. He is their only heir, but Grant wants nothing to do with him. He tasks Kane with destroying Marcus and reminds him not to get distracted. Kane immediately thinks of Dahlia, reminding himself that she’s a nobody, and he has responsibilities.
Kane attends psychology class with Jude and Preston and runs into Dahlia there. After class, he and his friends antagonize her, reminding her that she isn’t a real Vencor. They also interrogate her about Marcus because she and Marcus briefly dated.
