The Woman in Cabin 10 Ch. 29 - End

Okay, so...I finished the book.

Let's see.

Lo is locked below deck but she works slowly and gets the trust of pseudo-Anne, who turns out to be named Carrie.

Maybe.

Trust nothing.

Nothing.

Lo does eventually worm out the story of the night that Anne Bullmer was murdered, and I was wrong. So Carrie, assuming that her story is the truth, did not *intentionally* murder Anne Bullmer. Supposedly, she was seeing Lord Bullmer for a while and oh, wasn't it just a stunning coincidence that she could pass for his ailing wife with just a little effort. And oh, hey, wouldn't it be a lark if I snuck you on the boat and when my wife got off the boat you could pretend to be her and we could be together in the light of day.

Because that was DEFINITELY not a setup at all.

Sweetie.

So anyhow, in a stunning turn of 'bad luck' that no one could have predicted, that first day on the boat, Bullmer and Anne have a fight and he 'accidentally' kills her. And then hauls her body to the cabin in a suitcase for Carrie to dispose of later.

Only, and here's where the 'Carrie didn't do it on purpose' thing comes in. Because when she goes to dispose of the body, as instructed, the suitcase pops open and there's Anne Bullmer's body and hey, Carrie thinks she might not be dead, but she's startled and scared and screams and drops the suitcase over anyway.

Spoiler: Anne Bullmer was not dead. She drowned. So.

Lo and Carrie bond over Winnie the Pooh (is now a bad time to admit that I have literally never read any of these books?) and they exchange stories that make them both more human to one another.

Eventually, Lo realizes that she is alone on the boat with Carrie and some of the crew, even Bullmer is off the boat and it's hard for Carrie to get her food sometimes. More being trapped and determined to get out, and trying to convince Carrie that they can turn Bullmer in, blah, blah, look, you both know that he is going to murder you both that is the only way this scheme works.

Carrie eventually, when Bullmer is about to come back on board, sets Lo free. She gives Lo her 'Anne' outfit, because wow its lucky they all sort of vaguely resemble one another enough that with their hair covered and in the flowy outfits they can pass. -.-

Carrie is clearly the brains at this moment, because she is running things and trying to get Lo to make it look good by hitting her to make it look like she got knocked out and Lo escaped on her own. Admittedly I can't blame Lo for not being at her best. This is a weird situation and she's been locked up and on not her full dose of meds or getting all the food she should be getting. Either way, Carrie winds up having to brain herself on the bed and wow, I feel you.

I stood up one time beneath the overhanging top of my bunk bed - I had a metal frame bunk bed where the bottom was a futon - and I clocked myself right on the top of my head with the edge of the bottom of the top bed. Have you ever hurt yourself so badly that you laugh? Like, I HURTS and you are bleeding and there are tears, but your body just goes, NOPE! WE CANNOT DEAL WITH THIS STIMULUS!!!! LAUGHTER!!! Because that's how hard I hit my head. It was surprising.

Anyway.

Lo eventually scoots out, but while she's trying to sneak around the boat to get to Bullmer's cabin to get money, passport, etc., turns out Bullmer is back on the damn boat!!! She gets the money, finds a gun that she leaves behind and then hell, there's Bullmer inside the cabin.

Lo winds up out on the verandah thing and...well. She tries to scoot over to the next verandah, like had been done to break into her room, but she is not wearing the right shoes for this and she slips and falls into the ocean.

And you're reading, and wondering if she dies, because there was a body and her clothes were found in the water and I was concerned, I really was, but Lo makes it to land.

She makes it to land, and to a hotel, and the busboy or whoever working the desk who speaks English *definitely* calls Bullmer. Lo should have believed Carrie when she told her about what sort of influence Bullmer has. So Lo smartly scoots the fuck out of there, but she's left her money behind. She starts just walking, and eventually she slips into a ditch and there's a car that turns out to be a cop.

And she's maybe leaning towards trusting him, but then he says her name and she is not going to fall for this twice! Lo books it across country and I do not blame you, sweetie. You go!!!

She winds up sleeping in a barn and then after...I think it was a day and a half? Poor Lo was so exhausted. But a nice little old man shows up and she gets in the car with him because she is out of options.

BUT!! Little old man is safe, and lets her use his cellphone when there is service to call Judah!

Woo!

So Bullmer is fucked, but throughout this whole thing we find out that a second body was found when looking for Lo.

*waves hands*

The wrap up is that Anne Bullmer's body was found - she drowned. Poor Anne. Poor Carrie.

Ballmer's body was found, supposedly he'd shot himself in the head. And the gun was found wrapped in Lo's clothes. Which were not, in fact, found on a body.

And just...listen.

Here's a thing.

It's just...a fact.

If someone commits suicide, they are not, by definition, capable of hiding the damn weapon after the fact!

*sigh*

But let's ignore this, for the fact that Carrie's body is never found.

Because she lives!

Tigger's bounce!!

Okay, she definitely killed Bullmer.

But in fairness, he was a terrible person who murdered his wife and was 100% going to murder Lo and Carrie to cover his own ass.

Turns out Ben is....not as big of an asshole as he could have been?

He helped raise the alarm. Of course he also apparently implied that he and Lo had *just* broken up. So. Still an asshole.

We never get confirmation that Chloe and Cole where a thing, but they were and you all know it.

Carrie is off living her best life - she wires Lo some money and that's lovely.

And Lo and Judah are moving to New York.

I mean I have questions about this sudden life changing choice when Lo has been through some trauma, but I also and down for her and Judah being together and her getting to also live her best life, so I'm going to allow it.