Chapter Five Summary

Lily makes a weak attempt at evading the question about her scars, but Marshall persists. Lily pulls off her shirt and shows the astonished Marshall the extent of her scars. They run around her breasts, down to her abdomen and across her shoulders. Lily then relates the horrid story of how she was so savagely injured.

Two years after graduation from college, Lily is working in Memphis at a janitorial/cleaning company as an office manager. She is dating the owner of another small local business. One evening she leaves work but pulls over on the side when her car conks out. She is walking off the exit when a van stops, and someone opens the door and pulls a gun on her. The two men in the van force her in and take her to a location in the woods...