Section Break 106
- The family stays in Perth and gets to keep the apartment, even with the smashed stuff. There is a month to go until the trial, and Gemma is overwhelmed by the thought that she and Ty are in the same city.
- Gemma kind of feels like she's in prison. The apartment complex is all gray, and she can't leave without reporters taking her picture.
- Some days, Dr. Donovan, the psychiatrist, comes to visit and help her process what she's feeling.
Section Break 107
- As it turns out, it was Dr. Donovan who suggested Gemma write about her experiences. Gemma decides to write her story as a letter to Ty.
- To keep everyone from thinking she has Stockholm syndrome, Gemma starts agreeing with all of the awful things people say about Ty. She writes the statement they want to hear and tries to forget everything.
- Except she can't. The truth is that being with Ty changed the way she sees the world, and there's no going back.
Section Break 108
- Gemma has been thinking a lot about the trial and how she will feel when she sees Ty again. She tries to make sense of his plan to bring her to Australia—whether there was any chance for it to work or whether something like what happened was inevitable.
- Either way, she can't get thoughts of the natural environment and the sensory details of Ty's property out of her mind. She still wears his ring and plans to hide it before the cops come to talk with her about the trial and what she's going to say.
- Gemma thinks about what's going to happen when she gets on the witness stand. There are two possible ways this could go, but only one way for it to start.
Section Break 109
- Gemma imagines the first possible future of the case. She'll arrive at the court, speak with the prosecutor, and then be called to the witness stand.
- She'll tell the court how she knows Ty—how he stalked her for years after coming to England looking for his mother, and then she'll describe being drugged and abducted from the airport.
- Then, she'll say what everyone wants her to say: Ty kidnapped her and is a monster. And Ty will go to jail.
Section Break 110
- She also imagines another outcome: She could tell the court about how for her entire childhood, Ty watched out for and looked after her, saving her from Josh's attack.
- She could also say that they became friends and fell in love, and that she asked him to run away with her. She imagines Ty smiling as she says that he knew the perfect place for them to go.