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Ashley texts Heath, thanking him for the car and acknowledging it was his. Heath confirms the title is already in her name. They exchange declarations of love.

Ashley picks up Carly to go shopping. Carly correctly guesses the car was part of a wager between Heath and Royce, a bet Royce had placed repeatedly. They shop on Muscovy Street, where Carly buys several luxury items while Ashley refuses all offers to buy her anything.

During lunch at a dumpling house, Ashley confirms to Carly that she has said told both Heath and Royce she loves them. Carly makes a dark joke about Ashley confessing love like she is about to die, then regrets it. They agree to avoid morbid topics.

Carly describes an upcoming Devil’s Backbone Society ice-racing event in Alaska where the Society provides the cars. She suggests Ashley should compete. Ashley is hesitant but intrigued, hoping the event might be outside Jocelyn’s reach. After shopping at a department store, Carly gives Ashley a Louis Vuitton dumpling key charm as a gift.

While driving Carly back to her dorm, Ashley becomes convinced a silver van is following them.

The men discuss the ice-racing event in a group text. Heath states his grandfather’s request for them to attend is actually an order, making it mandatory.

Ashley voices her suspicion to Carly, who instructs her to perform an evasive maneuver by swerving onto their exit at the last second. The van continues straight, and Ashley realizes she was being paranoid. At the dorm, they are met by Carly’s boyfriend Edmund and another man, Spencer, whom Carly is annoyed to see. Ashley learns Carly’s two boyfriends are aware of each other to some degree. Carly reassures a worried Ashley that she is fine. As Ashley drives away, she sees Carly arguing with Spencer.

While Ashley drives home, Heath calls her, having been alerted by Carly about the suspected tail. He asks her to send her location for his peace of mind, as Carter is not home. As Ashley reaches for her phone to comply, a man in a hot dog costume knocks on her window to hand her a flyer for Harry’s Hot Dogs. The unexpected knock causes her to scream and drop her phone. Unable to retrieve it from where it fell, she drives the rest of the way home.

Heath is waiting anxiously in the parking garage. Having heard her scream and the call disconnect, a frantic Heath pulls Ashley from the car and kisses her desperately. Ashley explains why she screamed. They have sex on the hood of the car. Ashley cries from the emotional release during her orgasm. Heath confirms he was about to come looking for her and messages the other men to call off their search.

Ashley receives an accidental, explicit text from her father intended for Max, confirming his sexual relationship with Max and Carina. Horrified, she throws her phone across the hotel room.

In their hotel room in Alaska for the Devil’s Backbone Society event, Ashley gives a stiff Royce a back massage. Royce teases Ashley about the men’s different sexual kinks. Carter enters and tells Ashley they are late to sign up for the ice race. Royce objects, stating they had agreed not to race, but Carter dismisses him, explaining he wanted Ashley to race because he saw how disappointed she was. Carter and Ashley leave a protesting Royce behind and head for the lobby.

In the lobby bar, they find a sign-up table run by two men in suits with Devil’s Backbone Society pins. Carter signs Ashley up for the race, requesting a red car. Ashley signs a liability waiver. They return to her room so she can change into warmer clothes suitable for racing.

While waiting for the elevator, Ashley pulls Carter into an ice-machine alcove and performs oral sex on him. Heath discovers them in the act. Unfazed, Carter grabs Ashley’s hand, and they rush off to the race.

Carly texts Ashley to see if she’ll attend the race or not.

Ashley and Carter are in their assigned race car, a cherry-red Corvette. Carter confirms Nate has also entered the race, though Royce was too late to sign up. As the race begins and Ashley approaches the first turn, she discovers the Corvette’s brakes are not working. She tells Carter that someone has cut the brake line. Another racer spins out in front of them, and Ashley loses control of her car. She manages to steer into a large snowbank. The airbags deploy, leaving Ashley with a bloody nose.

Nate arrives and helps her out of the wrecked car. Carter, whose door is blocked by snow, climbs out through the driver’s side. Ashley notices the wreckage of two other cars that crashed more severely. Carter remarks that Jocelyn may have reached this event and that Heath’s grandfather has a lot to answer for. They are taken back to the lodge on snowmobiles.

Royce and Heath, having witnessed the crash from the spectator area, are extremely worried. A medic confirms Ashley and Carter only have minor injuries, though another driver broke his leg. That night, Carter insists on staying with Ashley to care for her. He gently washes the dried blood from her hair in the shower, uncharacteristically refraining from initiating sex. In bed, Carter confesses how terrified he was of losing her. They say they love each other and go to sleep.

Ashley receives an email from Professor Harris approving her request for an assignment extension. 

Back at the apartment after Alaska, the group agrees to avoid all Devil’s Backbone Society events until Jocelyn is incarcerated. Nate explains the cover story they are using with the university: that their respective parents died in a tragic plane crash, giving them an excuse for absences and extensions. Ashley decides to attend class anyway, and Nate and Royce accompany her to campus.

Ashley meets Carly at Dancing Goats coffee shop before class. Nate sits with Ashley through her lecture, resting his hand on her leg and stroking her knee. After class, Nate carries Ashley’s bag for her due to her stiff neck from the crash.

On campus, a fellow student who had pursued Carter, Jade, deliberately bumps into Ashley. Nate grabs Jade and threatens her, revealing he knows she is sabotaging a potential “arrangement” out of jealousy. After Jade reluctantly apologizes, Ashley retorts that Carter is not interested in marrying her. Jade retaliates by telling Ashley to ask Nate about his late-night phone calls with his ex-girlfriend, Paige. To counter Jade’s insinuation and her comment about Ashley’s missing engagement ring, Nate produces a ring from his pocket, claims he just picked it up from the jeweler. Jade leaves, defeated.

Nate is angry and admits Paige has been calling him frequently about family problems. Ashley feels insecure hearing this. Nate professes his love and loyalty, stating he would never cheat on her. Ashley believes him, and he kisses her.

The men text about a new, more secure property they want to buy.

The official investigation into the race concludes a mechanic with a military background tampered with the cars and was later found dead by suicide, providing a weak link to Jocelyn.

While driving home from campus on Friday, Ashley tells Carter she has been having trouble sleeping and is questioning her reality. Carter admits that all of them have had similar paranoid thoughts since their encounters with Jocelyn. Ashley reveals she has a date with Nate that night to resolve the tension from the incident with Jade. Carter asks Ashley for a date of their own the following night, and she agrees.

Nate takes Ashley to a formal, high-end restaurant. Ashley confronts Nate about Paige, asking why he is still in contact with her. Nate explains he felt guilty because Paige’s mother was pressuring her about him, but he only spoke to her twice out of concern for an old friend. He apologizes for not being upfront. Ashley asks if she is a rebound for him. Nate laughs and vehemently denies this, stating he never loved Paige and only dated her because it was expected. He clarifies that Ashley is completely different and means everything to him.

Nate asks Ashley to trust her gut feelings about them, but despite her newfound trust, she is too scared to admit the depth of her growing feelings and denies it. The mood becomes tense, and Ashley loses her appetite, asking to leave. Instead of going home, she suggests they do something more their style, like go to a smash room. Nate enthusiastically agrees, and they leave the restaurant holding hands.

Nate sends a final text to Paige, telling her to stop contacting him because he loves Ashley.

Ashley and Nate find the local smash room closed for a private party. Nate suggests a better alternative and calls a contact named Mouse to confirm that a place he refers to as Drake Place is secure. He stops at a hardware store and buys two sledgehammers, then drives them to Jocelyn’s luxurious apartment, for which he has a key.

Nate reveals this is the smash room by destroying a shelf of vases. Ashley realizes they are in Jocelyn’s home and, after seeing a family photo, joins in by ripping it in half. Nate reassures Ashley it is safe, as he has had the place monitored for some time and has the building’s door staff on his payroll. He gives Ashley a sledgehammer and tells her to destroy the place with him. They spend the next half hour cathartically demolishing the apartment’s contents.

Ashley finds a bottle of wine and pours them glasses amidst the wreckage. Nate emerges shirtless and sweaty. Ashley notices Nate has a splinter in a cut on his side and pulls it out. Recalling their argument from dinner, Nate deliberately provokes Ashley to make her smack him. They both grow aroused.

As they begin to have sex against the counter, Nate is startled, and they fall to the floor amidst spilled wine and broken glass. They continue having sex. After they finish, Nate realizes there is broken glass on the floor and carries Ashley to the counter to protect her feet. Ashley sees that the floor is stained with blood in addition to the wine.

Carly jokingly texts about her sex toys being out when her dorm was inspected.

In Jocelyn’s bathroom, Ashley tends to the numerous cuts on Nate’s back from the broken glass. She confronts Nate about his need for pain during sex. Nate confesses that this is unique to his relationship with her and not something he shared with Paige. He explains that he feels he needs her to hurt him as penance for his past behavior, and that he does not feel he deserves her otherwise. He admits the night she tried to smother him with a pillow shook something loose inside him. Ashley confirms his kink: He needs pain to be able to climax. They decide to leave, uneasy about having had sex in Jocelyn’s home. In the truck, Nate tells Ashley she does not have to wear the engagement ring, but he wants her to. She decides to keep it on.

They arrive at their building to find Colonel Mike pacing outside their apartment door. Inside, Carter confronts them, revealing that the tracking app showed their location at Jocelyn’s apartment. Once everyone is gathered, Colonel Mike announces that Jocelyn has been apprehended. He explains that the funeral home was under surveillance due to the existing warrant for Jocelyn. She broke in, killed the funeral director, and was apprehended by teams who arrived on the scene within minutes.

Ashley expresses skepticism, suggesting the Colonel could be hypnotized. The Colonel reveals that he, like Ashley’s mother and Max, is naturally immune to hypnosis, a fact central to Jocelyn’s research. He offers to arrange a prison visit for them to see Jocelyn with their own eyes, which Ashley accepts.

The Colonel delivers one last piece of news: the bodies of Ashley’s parents are missing from the funeral home. Nate and Ashley share a secret look, and Royce pulls Ashley into a hug to stop her from laughing and giving away their secret. After Nate politely asks him to leave, the Colonel departs.