65 pages 2 hours read

Mind Games

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Part 3, Chapters 26-30Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, illness, death, mental illness, and sexual content.

Part 3: “The Gift”

Part 3, Chapter 26 Summary

After his fight with Thea, Ty grapples with Bray’s heartbreak. Despite Ty’s subsequent decision to leave Redbud Hollow and return to Philadelphia, Bray insists that he doesn’t want to move. When Ty loses patience and tells Bray that they’re leaving regardless of his feelings, Bray runs away to Thea’s house. Thea finds him sobbing on her doorstep, warms him up, and takes him home. Ty and Bray apologize to each other, but Thea departs before Ty can thank her.


Realizing how much Redbud Hollow means to Bray, Ty reconsiders his decision and walks to Thea’s to retrieve the key and ask her to delete any photos of Bray from her phone. Thea hands over a photo meant as a Christmas gift and offers him her devices, furious that he doubts her intentions. When Ty insists that she could never have known about Bray’s toy without sneaking in or being psychic, Thea calmly states that she’s psychic. Ty doesn’t believe her until Thea offers undeniable proof: specific personal details about his past and his scar.


The confrontation escalates until Thea confesses the truth about her gift, Riggs, and her parents’ murders. Overwhelmed, she experiences a panic attack, and Ty talks her through it.

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