Two years later, Tricia sits outside the house with her and Ethan’s one-year-old daughter, Delilah, and reflects on their comfortable family life. Delilah happily toddles through the garden bringing flowers to Tricia, while Tricia admires how much the child resembles Ethan and feels satisfied with the life they have built together.

As Tricia looks around the property, she notes that she and Ethan kept much of Adrienne Hale’s furniture after buying the house. Tricia recalls that immediately after their weekend there, she contacted Judy, rushed the sale, and paid full asking price because she and Ethan needed to keep other people out of the house. Their urgency came from a practical motive: they did not want anyone discovering the hidden compartments or investigating the garden.

Ethan joins Tricia outside, and their conversation reveals that Tricia is pregnant again. Their easy affection and excitement about expanding their family emphasize how fully they have settled into the estate. To Tricia, the house that once frightened her has become their dream home.

When Delilah falls and cries, Ethan goes to comfort her while Tricia watches. Her attention turns to a patch of grass in the garden that had struggled to grow for about a year before finally recovering. Tricia explains that the soil had been disturbed because Luke Strauss’s body was buried there, and that Edward Jamison’s body lies nearby.

Tricia remembers that killing Luke and digging his grave were part of how she and Ethan secured their future. Ethan slit Luke’s throat while Luke offered only limited resistance, and the couple buried him on the property, trusting that time and regrown grass would hide the evidence. Watching Ethan play with Delilah, Tricia feels their shared crimes have bound them together permanently.

Still, the chapter ends on a darker note as Tricia doubts Ethan is as steady as she is. She senses his anxiety whenever people go near the garden and worries he might break if anyone starts asking questions. Tricia resolves that if such a threat ever arises, she is prepared to eliminate it, embracing her mother’s belief that a secret is safest when one of the people who knows it is dead.