Chapter 26

Summary

• Leah finds herself alone in her house after midnight, feeling exposed and violated. Her house had been searched by others who had left traces indicating that they have gained insight into her personal life.
• Leah fights off feelings of vulnerability and ventures outside in the darkness. She retrieves a mostly empty, lightweight box from the trunk of her car. She takes the box inside to Emmy's room and carefully goes through each item without leaving her fingerprints.
• Leah relives the memory of living in a shared apartment in Boston eight years prior. She hopes that she can prove the existence of Emmy and their past together through evidence from that period.
• She prepares for school the next morning, feeling paranoid that someone might be watching her. However, nobody appears to be lurking in the shadows.
• Leah places a call to Noah, asking for a favor – information on a woman named Bethany Jarvitz. She threatens him with possible implications in hidden misdeeds from their past at work. But Noah warns her that her reputation as a known liar may hinder her plans. He discloses that someone in Pennsylvania had made an inquiry about Leah.
• Noah refuses to provide the information Leah requested, deepening her anger towards him and revealing their past fraught relationship.
• Leah is pressured to find answers about Emmy's past before her own skeletons transpire. She thinks of her friends and partners over the years and decides to reach out to the woman who had lived in their apartment before them in Boston - Amelia Kent.
• After a few calls, Leah manages to get in touch with Amelia. Amelia reveals that she left the apartment because she caught her ex-boyfriend, Vince, in bed with another woman. Leah sees Vince as a potential lead in finding Emmy.