Amanda comes home from work. Krista asks her about apartments and sits with her to look at them while she waits for Blake to get back. She notices that the coffee table is cluttered with magazines and mail. Underneath one pile is a knife.

As Blake drives, he realizes that some of the poison must have gotten into his system. He becomes more and more nauseous, his head hurts, and his vision starts to blur. He again considers calling 911, then decides that he has to try to talk to Krista. When he gets to the brownstone, however, he can’t get his key into the lock, so he rings the doorbell.

As Amanda continues to show Krista apartments online, Krista begins to worry about Blake. She wants him to get home just as she is killing Amanda so that he will be blamed for it.

When Krista calls her “Amanda,” she asks her not to. She admits that she doesn’t like the name “Whitney,” either, as it sounds like a “bitchy” girl (326). The comment enrages Krista, and she accuses Amanda of being ungrateful. Amanda grows uncomfortable and suggests that maybe they shouldn’t live together with everything that is going on. She gets up to leave, and Krista grabs the knife to stop her. The doorbell rings just as Krista stabs her in the stomach.

Krista answers the door as Blake stumbles into the apartment. She tells him that she gave him the poison from a blowfish. He apologizes for cheating on her, insisting that he still loves her. However, when he sees that Whitney has been stabbed, he realizes that he’s not going to change her mind.

As Blake falls to the floor, he looks up and sees Krista standing over him. However, she then falls to the ground next to him, and blood starts to pour out of her. He sees Whitney above him, holding the knife.

As Krista dies next to him, Blake is heartbroken. Despite everything, he insists that he still loves her. He tells Krista this, but she responds that he doesn’t even “know” her. He hears Whitney calling 911. He realizes that Krista is going to die, but it’s “exactly what she deserves” (333).

As Krista dies, she thinks of how she should have stabbed Amanda again and given Blake more poison. She realizes that her “mother was right” and that she would “never live happily ever after” (334).

One week later, Blake is released from the hospital. Although there was no antidote, he did not have enough poison in his system to kill him. He spent several days intubated to get through it. His father came out for a few days, but when he knew Blake would survive, he went home to be at his store.

Now, Amanda picks Blake up from the hospital, as he has no one else to call. She has told him her whole story, and they have become close, especially since Blake is grateful that she saved his life.

In the taxi, Amanda tells Blake that she is packing to move in with a friend. However, Blake insists that she continue to rent the room from him.

Krista became famous after they discovered her real identity. After her death, they discovered that she killed many people over the last several years. As Blake thinks about her, he realizes that she was a “monster,” but he still misses her.

Blake has put the brownstone on the market. Amanda is going to stay behind and facilitate the sale while he moves to Cleveland to take over his father’s store. He is extremely grateful for Amanda’s friendship, as it has allowed them both to begin to heal from what Krista did.

Blake made some money from doing a few interviews about Krista. However, it made him feel uncomfortable, so he stopped. He also turned down a book deal.

As he says goodbye to Amanda, he tells her that he can lend her money if she needs it. However, she insists that with the publicity from the murders, she has enough money to begin paying back the loan shark and getting back her old identity.

The narrative’s point of view then shifts to Amanda.

After Blake leaves, she thinks about what a good person he is and how much she will miss him. However, she also realizes that he would hate her if he knew the truth about her.

A month before Krista died, a man waited for her at the diner to talk to her after work. He introduced himself as Frank Gallo. He said that her debts—which were actually from gambling—would be paid off if she did something for him. He told her that the woman she was living with killed his nephew Jordan years before. He promised Amanda that if she killed Krista, he would ensure that her debt was taken care of.

Now, she thinks of how everything worked out perfectly for her. She had planned to kill Krista and frame Blake, but instead, Krista took care of everything. When she killed Krista, she wasn’t “saving Blake’s life,” but instead, was “saving [her] own” (344).