Charlotte’s gallery showing at Monta Clare Fine Art is small but successful, attended mostly by family and friends. Daisy Creason arrives to cover it for The Tribune and remembers a similar show from decades earlier, linking this evening to an older artistic past. Charlotte presents herself with poise and salesmanship, moving easily among guests and helping sell her landscapes, many of which already carry red stickers from a telephone bidder.

As Saint walks through the show, she admires Charlotte’s growing talent and thinks of absent women in her life, especially her grandmother and Misty. Sammy, unusually content to stay in the background, praises Charlotte’s skill as a natural salesperson. He also mentions seeing Saint in the newspaper receiving the FBI Medal for Meritorious Achievement, which leads Saint to reflect on the recognition, her long pursuit of Eli Aaron, and the nightmares that still follow her. Charlotte has quietly been comforting Saint during those nights, even though neither of them speaks openly about it.

When the event ends and Daisy asks for a final photograph of Charlotte with her family, Charlotte places herself between Saint and Mary Meyer and then asks Sammy to join them. Sammy resists, making clear that he does not believe he belongs in that family image, even when Charlotte calls him Grandpa. Afterward, Charlotte and Saint leave together while Mary Meyer walks off with Sammy.

Outside, Charlotte jokes crudely about Mary Meyer and Sammy, then asks Saint whether Sammy is a good man. Saint answers honestly that he is not, but adds that he tries, which gives Charlotte a complicated but hopeful measure of him. Charlotte then asks to stop by her mother’s grave, and while Charlotte visits, Saint sits before Norma and Chief Nix, reflecting on faith, loss, and the past.

Saint also thinks about Charlotte’s father, imagining him somewhere far away and living quietly. She remembers how intensely Charlotte once waited for news of him and how rumors about his fate kept spreading, but Saint trusts none of them. Back at the house, Saint and Charlotte find a small package addressed to Charlotte on the porch. As Saint prepares their nightly cocoa and they settle together to watch the fireflies, Charlotte opens it and discovers a glowing jar of impossibly beautiful purple honey, ending the chapter with a mysterious sign from beyond their ordinary life.