Summary

In Chapter 40 Stephen updates the reader on where he is with his plan. He has been pretending to be Jonathan online, luring Nicholas into some sort of trap. He sends Nicholas a picture of his mother from Spain, claiming he found it in an old box and it had Catherine's name on the back of it. This, Stephen told Nicholas, is the reason he originally contacted him. The picture is of Catherine sitting on the beach, but Stephen plans to send Nicholas the sexual photos of Catherine at a later time. Stephen plans to push Nicholas "...to the brink. All I need to do is feed his darkness and lead him to a point of no return then leave him there, teetering on the edge" (227).

Chapter 41 is an entry from Nancy's journal, dated October 1998. Nancy is still depressed about Jonathan's death and bewildered...