Summary

In Chapter 18, Lydia goes home and finds her mother and father waiting for her. They tell her that she cannot upset the town because her father is in a precarious position with his latest case. From now on, they warn, they want to listen to all her episodes before she posts them. They also tell her that Erin Hendrix called and wants to speak with her.

In Chapter 19, Lydia goes to Erin’s house to talk to her. She learns that Denise hung out with Bristal’s uncle, Dover, who is currently in jail. Lydia remembers him from a video Bristal showed her about the tornado. The reporter interviewed Dover, who had bruises and cuts on his face from—he said—a brick falling on his head. Erin says that Denise had been horribly abused in her previous foster family, and she assumed...