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Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death; emotional abuse; child death; graphic violence; substance use; sexual content; child abuse.
Claire takes pictures of the camper and its California plates, relieved to know she has solid evidence to give to Chief DiNello. She’ll rescue Marcia and be able to drive away from Galloway forever. She opens the camper door and is surprised to see something shiny. It turns out to be a peridot necklace she’d given to Natalie on her 16th birthday.
Claire makes her way back to Galloway in the dark, holding the necklace. At just about three in the morning, she enters the guesthouse and pockets her phone. She hurries inside to finish the diary. She looks at the picture of Natalie, happy and alive, with the necklace dangling from her neck. Claire had thought she’d taken it off because she outgrew her, but instead she’d lost it. She now suspects it was Mitchell who was Natalie’s older boyfriend.
She starts to cry, but as she looks again at the picture, she sees someone she hadn’t noticed before among the coworkers. She recognizes the teenage face and is stunned. She hurries to the desk to get the gun, but it’s gone. She realizes one other person has the key to the guesthouse. Liam pushes the gun into Claire’s back, telling her he’s sorry.



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