Summary

Five months after Lily’s death, the verdict is still being deliberated. Asher, Jordan, and Olivia go to the courthouse every day, but the deliberations continue to drag on. Olivia cannot even think of the worst-case scenario that Asher will be found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

Mike Newcomb, a police officer, and Olivia’s former boyfriend go to visit her at the farm. He has been supportive throughout the entirety of the trial, trying to remind her that there are people who believe her. He asks her to show him how she tends to the bees and Olivia agrees. She uses the smoker to calm the bees down and the few that are still agitated begin to settle in. She checks the empty cells for eggs. Her process is “mechanical, methodical. It’s like swimming underwater, in a world where...