I Let You Go

Jenna asks Ian why he killed Jacob, and Ian replies that the boy would have ruined everything because Anya wanted him to be a father. Jenna thinks of how she would have loved Jacob like her own son.

She feigns weakness, then throws her head back so that the back of her skull hits his face. He grabs her as she runs, and she pushes at him, causing him to lose his footing and fall down the stairs. As she goes downstairs, though, he grabs her ankle and gets atop her. She gets a knee into his groin and scrambles up, running out the door. He chases her. She misses the car park, making it to the coastal path. Eventually, she slows down, but then she hears his voice, telling her there is nowhere to run. She isn’t sure where he is, but then he is behind her with his forearm across her throat. She jabs an elbow into his ribs and twists away.

He reaches for her, but once again she fights back: “I have run enough from him” (433). She smashes her palm into his chin, pushing him backward…over the cliff.