In her second letter, Ella says that she is glad that Chaos wrote back. She asks him what the scariest choice he ever made was and confesses hers: After already having sold off some of the land, she couldn’t bear to sell more, and so she mortgaged Solitude to pay for its renovations.

Beckett arrives at the hospital with Maisie’s folder, and a nurse assumes he is her father. Ella reassures him that it’s alright; she left the father’s information blank on the hospital forms as she didn’t want the doctors calling Jeff, her ex-husband. Beckett explains that he experienced absent and neglectful parenting in his childhood as he spent most of his life in foster care. He hasn’t seen his mother since she terminated her parental rights in court when he was five.

Ella introduces Beckett to Maisie, who takes an immediate liking to him and asks him to stay with them that night. She secretly confides in Beckett that she doesn’t want Ella to be alone. Ella gives in to her daughter and invites Beckett to stick around. After Maisie is taken into surgery the next day, Ella almost collapses in worry, and Beckett takes her to get some food.