In this flashback, Savvy angrily pulls Lucy away after catching Lucy kissing Emmett behind the wedding venue. Once they are in the car, Savvy says she is not jealous but worried, because Lucy has gone from making out with abusive husband Matt to nearly having sex with Emmett by a dumpster. Savvy confronts Lucy for letting Matt touch her at all, which leads Lucy to admit how deeply Matt’s abuse has distorted her thinking.

Lucy says she sometimes feels she and Matt deserve each other because she has screamed at him and fought back. Savvy firmly rejects that idea and tells Lucy that Matt pushed Lucy to the edge and then blamed her for surviving. Lucy then shifts her guilt toward Emmett, saying she is using him unfairly, but Savvy counters that Emmett is not a harmless sweetheart.

Savvy reveals that she slept with Emmett a few months earlier. She says the experience was unpleasant: the kissing was sloppy, the sex was rough and selfish, and Emmett later treated her rudely. Savvy adds that when she later refused him, Emmett became handsy, rough, and angry. This disclosure changes how Lucy sees Emmett and undercuts the idealized version of him she has carried.

After seeing Emmett’s truck pass by, Lucy admits she has terrible taste in men. The conversation turns back to Matt, and Lucy finally says she has to leave both Matt and Plumpton. Savvy asks whether Lucy still wants to kill Matt, but Lucy realizes revenge no longer matters as much as escaping and starting over. Lucy wants a new life, not a murder charge.

Savvy immediately embraces the idea of running away together and suggests Los Angeles. Lucy, who had only been fantasizing about escape, impulsively agrees to leave as soon as the next night. The chapter ends with the two women newly united around a plan to flee, just before Savvy notices something in the darkness and says, “What the hell?”