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Paris should have known it would end like this, because there’s no such thing as happily ever after when you run away from one life to start a whole new one.
paris has a past life?
When she received them for her birthday last month—not her real birthday, but the one that’s listed on her ID—
who is Paris? what is she running away from?
She managed to fly under the radar for nineteen years after she escaped Toronto,
what life did Paris have in toronto?
She’s directed to take her clothes off in the corner behind a blue curtain. She undresses quickly, removing everything but her underwear, and puts on the sweatshirt, sweatpants, socks, and rubber slides they’ve given her. It’s a relief to get the bloodstained clothes off and change into footwear that doesn’t resemble a cat toy.
Is she the culprit?
But he doesn’t know her, not really. Nobody does.
Goes back to my question in chapter 1 who is Paris?
And yet, all anyone could see—the press, Jimmy’s friends, and especially Elsie—was the twenty-nine-year age difference.
I am thinking someone close To her husband Was the 1 who killed him and is framing her But that's just my thought?
Her name is Ruby Reyes, and the media back then had nicknamed her “the Ice Queen.” She’s also the woman whose daughter Paris killed nineteen years ago.
Why did she kill her daughter19 years ago ?
It wasn’t like Paris planned to kill her. But neither was it an accident.
But why kill joey?
Joey never doubted that she was the worst thing that ever happened to her mother. Just like her mother was the worst thing that ever happened to her.
Ruby Reese and her daughter gonna have the best relationship So it seems
“Which was the last time I ever saw her. She told me she’d quit the video store, but she didn’t mention she was dancing at the strip club right next door.” “She never told me, either,” Drew says. “I found out the hard way.”
Is Paris actually joey Running away from her past ?
Some people wear their hearts on their sleeve. Joey wore her trauma around her neck.
What was joey's past trauma?
Betty Savage might know. But he can’t talk to her, because she’s missing. Or is she?
Did Paris kill Betty savage in order for her new life?
“As stupid as it sounds, I never wanted Ruby to go to prison. I just wanted to not live with her anymore. But in the end, she got the last laugh. Living with my aunt and uncle didn’t make my life better. All it did was make it a different kind of shitty. And there were many times when I wished I had just stayed with the devil I knew.”
It was also the day she realized that her bad mother also had a bad mother.
So her mother comes from an abusive past
Tito Micky was no longer looking out the window, he was looking at her. He sighed, and his whiskey-tinged breath caressed Joey’s cheek. “’Sus,” he sighed. The word—which wasn’t really a word, more like a syllable—was Filipino slang for “Jesus.” “So pretty, Joelle.”
Is her uncle going to sexually assault her?
It looks like Ruby, but it’s not Ruby at all. And it’s not Mae, either. Mae is not the one who disappeared nineteen years ago and somehow ended up married to Jimmy Peralta. It’s Joey. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
drew found out that mae Is still missing And that joey is alive Rename herself to paris
The trick, she discovered, was to not be Joey. The trick was to be Ruby.
She used her mother as an alter ego
Paris gets back into the car. As she and Drew drive away, she mentally says goodbye to the girl who lived in Willow Park, the one who survived her mother. All the memories here are painful, but they belong to a life that’s no longer hers. And over time, she will remember it less.
