Part 1 here.
This recap will cover Chapters 13-16.
Mrs. Broadfield takes charge, setting a firm schedule for Annie to follow every morning. It includes physical therapy, meals, and baths.
Annie is surprised to learn that Millie has been let go. When she asks Tony about it, he says that she was incompetent. Next she asks him about Luke’s letter and Tony acts like he has no idea what she is talking about.
During physical therapy, Annie begins to feel pain in her legs but Mrs. Broadfield dismisses her claims, sure they are just phantom pains. Annie suffers in silence.
One of the handy men named Parsons comes into her room later to set up her TV. Annie asks him random questions, most of them related to his duties at Farthy.
Later Annie sees Tony approach her parent’s monument. The man from before joins him but is gone so soon that Annie begins to wonder if he is a ghost that only she can see.
When she asks Tony about the man, he says it was one of the grounds people but since none of them match the description Annie gave Rye, she doesn’t believe him. To distract her, Tony suggests a tour of the place.
He takes her immediately to her parents old suite and she is shocked at how well kept it is…almost as if her parents were still living in it.
Tony admits that he has been keeping it as new as he can. Annie doesn’t understand his reasoning behind it but he claims it keeps the past alive for him.
“Don’t you see, by doing all of this”—he extended his arms—“I’ve kept Heaven as she was to me . . . always. I’ve cheated Fate.” He laughed a thin, hollow laugh. “That, my dear, is the true power of great wealth.”
More like crazy illusions but whatever…
Annie notices a hairbrush with blond hair still in it and Tony gets sentimental about Heaven’s dyed hair. Annie looks around at more of the personal items and asks Tony why her mother would leave these things.
He doesn’t seem to hear her and later apologizes, saying he thought he saw her as Heaven in her nightgown, brushing her hair and preparing for bed.
Annie finds the act of him watching her mother getting ready for bed odd. When she pursues her question, he finally says that Heaven had doubles of everything back at Winnerow so she didn’t feel the need to take what she had here. Right.
Annie asks Tony if he will tell her why her mother left now. Tony finally admits defeat and says that he might as well confess there as its fitting to do so in her room.
To explain everything, Tony has to go back to the beginning. He explains his complicated marriage with the vain Jillian and how lonely he felt when his brother passed away.
Tony tells her how Heaven broke his heart when she returned to Winnerow to teach. When he learned that she was going to marry Logan, he panicked, sure that she would remain there and end up forgiving her father, Luke Casteel.
Tony admits how he called Logan and began to build his future, and how he and Heaven permitted him to hold their wedding reception at Farthy.
Annie asks Tony point blank why any of this would cause her mother to hate him. He then tells her of how he knew Luke had always wanted a circus and how he had acquired and sold one to him for a dollar and the agreement that he would cut all future ties with Heaven.
Annie is sickened by the deal but realizes that Luke had agreed to it so he was no better than Tony. Tony continues on how Heaven figured it out after Luke and Stacie died. He goes on sadly about how empty his life was after that.
What kept him alive was learning about Heaven and Logan’s life in Winnerow. Annie feels sorry for him when she sees the tears in his eyes. He pleads with her to give him the chance to make things right by helping her.
Annie tells him that she wants to go back to her room so she can think. Tony says he doesn’t blame her for hating him. Annie clears up that she doesn’t hate him but that she understands why her mother was so angry. She also points out that Luke had died before she and him even had a chance to reconcile.
When she gets back to her room, she is tired and doesn’t want to do her physical therapy but Mrs. Broadfield insists.
“You don’t want your legs to rot and fall off do you?” she asked, smiling again, this time like some wicked witch.
Annie tells her that she can feel her fingers on her legs without pain. When Mrs. Broadfield keeps massaging near her buttocks, she finally asks if it is “enough yet?” and the nurse acts like Annie just slapped her.
Drake comes after for a list of things Annie wants brought back from home. Finally he sees something is wrong and asks Annie if she’s OK.
She tells him all about what Tony has just told her. Drake is clearly effected and while he admits he doesn’t remember his parents too well since he was five, he does remember a fire truck that Heaven sent him.
He remembers how his dad would ask him if he knew who sent it to him, showing that maybe Luke did care somewhat for Heaven after all. Drake suggests that they forgive Tony and that Heaven would understand.
Annie gets to thinking about Luke with his new girlfriend and then has a nightmare about Logan. When she wakes up screaming, Tony of course is there to comfort her.
Later on she wakes up in the middle of the night to see someone come over and kiss her forehead. Whoever this is doesn’t make her afraid. Spoiler: It’s Troy.
In the morning Annie wakes to the doctor asking her questions. They talk about her progress and recuperation. Annie also asks Tony if she can go to the monument soon for a service and he agrees with the doctor’s blessing.
Tony also promises to get in touch with Luke but claims he can’t get a hold of him. He distracts Annie from the subject by picking out a black dress of Heaven’s for her to wear to see the monument the next day. He tells her about how her mother wore this at a funeral once and how it dazzled everyone.
Tony tells her that if she dyed her hair silvery blonde, she would look just like her grandmother. As if to prove it, he shows her a picture. Then he tries to talk her into dying it.
Annie is baffled at the request and says maybe after the service. Tony is disappointed but calls Mrs. Broadfield in to help Annie try on the black dress. When Tony comes in to look at her, he has a strange smile on his face.
Meanwhile Annie is upset because she can now see how awful and stringy her hair really looks. This must have been Tony’s reasoning for her to try on the dress now—for her to see how bad her hair looked.
He continues to coax her into seeing a hairdresser. When he mentions what Luke will think, that seals the deal. Annie is so transparent. When he is gone, she looks at two pictures he has brought of her grandmother and mother, both of them with blonde hair with similar silly poses in the horse stables.
Mrs. Broadfield seems irritated about having to dress Annie for no reason and takes it out on her with a scalding bath. Annie is sure that she sees her toe move but as usual, her nurse dismisses her claim when she fails to repeat the action.
Annie finds herself laying naked on the bed when Tony comes in. He apologizes before leaving and Annie gets annoyed with Mrs. Broadfield for not closing the door.
Tony shortly returns with Renee’, a french hairdresser. He finally gets Annie to dye her hair the color Tony wants. Annie is pleased because it reminds her of the pictures of her mother when she first came here.
She later imagines Luke’s reaction to her hair and it’s so cheesy. Drake stops by and recounts of how everyone is back home. Aunt Fanny has apparently changed a lot since Heaven and Logan died. Drake found her out in the gazebo reading.
Drake expresses outrage over Luke not calling yet and Annie pleads with him to try harder to reach out to him. She begins to wonder if maybe Drake is right and that Luke has already moved on with his life without her.
In the morning Tony has a surprise for Annie—he has installed an elevator chair on the stairs so she can learn to get around the house. After Tony insists she do it herself, she gets to the bottom and Drake comes out clapping at her success.
Annie gets upset when she learns that Luke isn’t coming and she can’t understand why he wouldn’t at least come to a service for his own father. Annie is ferried as close to the monument as possible in the limo.
Then she is carried to the monument where they are also joined by the servants and a priest. Annie imagines that her parents are speaking to her during the service. She breaks down at the end. Tony and Drake quickly get her back to her room but not before she spots the tall thin man near the woods.
After a sedative knocks her out, Annie wakes up in the dark alone. She calls for someone but is only met with silence. She’s hungry so she manages to get out of bed and into her chair.
She ends up rolling herself into the first room she sees, which is Jillian’s old suite. It has been kept up just like her parent’s rooms. Mrs. Broadfield finds her and is furious. She goes on about how spoiled Annie is when she has her back in her room.
They argue before Mrs. Broadfield heads downstairs to see if a meal has been made for Annie. In the meantime, Annie writes a desperate letter to Luke, acknowledging how confused she is by his absence. She tells him that she wants to see him soon.
Mrs. Broadfield returns with food that Annie finds bland. When she complains, her nurse says that Rye has been using too many “exotic spices” in her food. Annie refuses to eat it unless Rye prepares it his way.
I do admit that Annie is definitely being spoiled here. Tony comes in after Mrs. Broadfield goes to see about the new food. Annie gives Tony the letter for Luke and he puts it in the pocket of his suit jacket.
Annie then asks him if another woman is living here and admits to going into a woman’s suite that looked like someone was living in it. Tony explains that it was Jillian’s suite.
He leaves and Mrs. Broadfield returns with a tasty meal made by Rye. She watches as Annie gobbles it down. After she takes the tray back, Annie begins to get painful cramps. She calls for Mrs. Broadfield but she either can’t hear her or doesn’t care.
By the time Mrs. Broadfield returns, Annie is slumped in her chair. She has soiled herself. Mrs. Broadfield is smiling coldly and says that she’d told Annie so.
So even though Annie was being a brat about the food, lacing it with a laxative is so wrong! Mrs. Broadfield is one sadistic woman.
Next, Annie realizes what Mrs. Broadfield has done and confronts Tony about it.
