49 pages 1 hour read

Emiko Jean

The Return of Ellie Black

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Chapters 17-23Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 17 Summary

During therapy, Ellie describes feelings of dissociation and her inability to feel a sense of self. Cerise suggests that they do some art therapy rather than talking, which interests Ellie. Cerise asks Ellie to draw what friendship looks like to her. In one of the drawings, Ellie draws a field with a hole that looks like a grave. In the other picture, Ellie draws four girls with loops around their wrists. Cerise asks if the people are real, and Ellie starts having a panic attack. Cerise talks her through it. Ellie tells her that the people in the picture were her friends but also her sisters.

Chapter 18 Summary

At the station, one of the officers tells Chelsey that they did not find any evidence at Lewis’s house of either Gabrielle or Ellie. Once Lewis’s lawyer shows up, Chelsey informs her about the blood on Gabrielle’s sweatshirt being a partial match to Lewis’s father.

Interlude 7 Summary

In a flashback, David tells Serendipity, Hope, Charity, and Ellie that he knows they have betrayed him. Michael dumps the seeds on the ground, and Ellie feels afraid. David makes the girls throw the seeds into the fire, followed by the friendship bracelets that Hope made for them.