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Spoiler Discussion for Verity by Colleen Hoover
This post includes:
A Full Plot Summary of Verity
An Explanation of the Ending of Verity
Spoiler Discussion for Verity
Verity: Team Manuscript or Team Letter? Is Verity’s manuscript a writing exercise or a confession?
UPDATED: What is in the NEW epilogue chapter in the new hardcover version of Verity? I have all the details and all I can say is …. WOW! Check it out and let’s discuss!
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Plot Summary for Verity by Colleen Hoover
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is headed to a meeting in New York City when she witnesses a pedestrian get hit and killed by a truck. A kind bystander offers her a clean shirt, as hers is now bloody.
Lowen, in debt after her mother’s recent death, is in the city to discuss a job. The publisher of bestselling author Verity Crawford needs a writer to finish some of Verity’s manuscripts. Interesting!
The bystander to the accident is none other than Jeremy Crawford, Verity’s husband. He confides to Lowen that Verity was in a car accident and that she was a big fan of Lowen’s work.
Lowen tells her agent (and ex) Corey that Jeremy has invited her to his house Vermont to go over Verity’s papers and notes.
Corey suggests she ask Jeremy to mail them to her, considering all the tragedy that’s befallen people close to Jeremy. (Jeremy and Verity call themselves “chronics” meaning people who have chronic tragedy in their lives. But are they really?)
One of Jeremy and Verity’s twin daughters died of an allergic reaction, the other drowned in a lake, then Verity had her accident. Bad things just seem to happen to people in Jeremy’s life.
But Lowen is like nope, sorry. I’m going to his house.
Lowen heads to Vermont, feeling nervous. She’s greeted by Jeremy and Verity’s young son, Crew. Jeremy suggests she pick a pen name, Laura, and tell everyone to call her that. (No one does.)
Lowen meets Verity, who seems unaware of anything around her, and Verity’s nurses.
Jeremy directs her to Verity’s office. In sorting through Verity’s papers, she finds a manuscript, which seems to be Verity’s autobiography. Lowen reads a portion about Jeremy meeting Verity and their instant attraction.
Lowen is rejected for an apartment she was hoping to rent. Jeremy offers her a loan and goes around without a shirt. This, combined with all the sex scenes in Verity’s autobiography, makes Lowen wildly attracted to him. Even when she thinks she sees Verity peering out her bedroom window.
In Verity’s autobiography, she is pregnant with twins and feels conflicted about it, even jealous at having to share Jeremy with them. Lowen feels judge-y about this and wonders if Verity actually wrote it at all.
Lowen notices that Jeremy has put a lock on her bedroom door and recalls an injury she got as a child while sleepwalking. The next day, she goes grocery shopping with Jeremy and is annoyed at two women flirting with him. She’s pleased when Jeremy shuts this down.
Crew, Jeremy and Verity’s son, tells Lowen he injured himself with a knife (which Verity sees) but then tells his father he fell off the bed. The knife vanishes.
Lowen continues reading the autobiography, which chronicles Verity’s continued attempts to end her pregnancy by doing things like taking pills and throwing herself down the stairs. This deepens Lowen’s dislike of Verity.
Lowen also continues to lust after Jeremy.
Lowen wakes up in Verity’s bed. Jeremy rushes to her side and she tells him about the sleepwalking incident that injured her as a child. The next morning, he offers to put a lock on the outside of her door.
In Verity’s autobiography, she nearly smothers her daughter Harper and then realizes that Jeremy might have seen her on the baby monitor.
Verity writes about how Jeremy accuses her of favoring Chastin, Harper’s twin sister. She tells him that the daycare thinks Harper is on the autism spectrum. Verity also lies and says she’s pregnant again.
Lowen and Jeremy finally have sex but in the middle of it she sees Verity watching.
Lowen reads the part in the autobiography where Chastin dies of an allergic reaction. Verity is sure that Harper killed her sister.
Lowen yells at Verity for being a terrible mother, and Verity wets her pants.
Jeremy and Lowen undertake a marathon sex session. In the morning, Jeremy wants to sneak out so that Crew doesn’t find him in Lowen’s room, but they are locked inside.
Lowen reads the part of Verity’s autobiography where she kills Harper by capsizing a canoe and doesn’t save her. Then Lowen asks Crew about the day Harper died and he says that his mom says not to talk to Lowen.
Crew bites a knife, and Jeremy has to take him to get stitches.
The final chapter of Verity’s autobiography is Jeremy realizing that Verity killed Harper, Verity feeling despondent that her husband knows she’s a killer, and Verity contemplating driving her car into a tree.
Lowen finds Verity out of bed. She screams at Jeremy that Verity is faking and also a murderer. She gives Jeremy the autobiography and tells him to read it.
Verity admits to Jeremy that she’s been faking her condition.
Jeremy attacks Verity.
Lowen stops him, advising him to make Verity’s death look like an accident. He needs to to induce vomiting, then suffocate her so it looks like she choked to death.
Whoa, Lowen. Dark much?
What is the Ending of Verity by Colleen Hoover?
Seven months later, Lowen is pregnant and finishing Verity’s manuscripts in New York. She, Jeremy and Crew head back to the Vermont house and there Lowen finds a letter from Verity to Jeremy.
What does Verity’s letter say?
In the letter, Verity tells Jeremy that her “autobiography” was actually a writing exercise, a fictionalized version of real events that she was writing to “get inside the mind of a villain.”
Verity claims that she didn’t really try to end her pregnancy or kill the twins. It was all a “writing exercise.”
But Jeremy read the autobiography and, furious when he thought Verity killed his children, strangled her into unconsciousness, tied her up, crashed the car, put her in the drivers’ seat, and fled the scene.
After the accident, Verity pretended to be injured and, when Jeremy was in New York meeting with the publishers, made her plans to leave Jeremy and flee with Crew.
The one problem: Verity just couldn’t remember where she put the printed copy of the “autobiography,” the one that Lowen found so easily.
Horrified, Lowen rips up Verity’s letter and flushes it down the toilet. She can’t blame Jeremy for being fooled by the fake autobiography. Since they both killed Verity, she has to keep quiet.
What is in the new Epilogue in the new hardcover version of Verity?
What happens in the new epilogue chapter of Verity? Buckle up and let’s talk MORE spoilers for the epilogue.
The epilogue takes place six months after the main story ended.
Lowen and Jeremy’s baby daughter, Nova, is now three months old. They are living by the water in North Carolina. How sweet, right?
First off, the epilogue does NOT tell us whether the autobiography was true or the letter. Sorry.
But we get a LOT more info about that #couplegoals pair, Jeremy and Lowen.
Lowen has decided that whether the manuscript or the letter are true, Verity was a bad mother. Either Verity did terrible things to her children OR she wrote about doing terrible things to them. Both are bad. Okay, Lowen, but one is WAY more bad.
Never mind all that Team Manuscript/Team Letter nonsense. Lowen is much more worried about her sex life with Jeremy.
She is deeply, obsessively jealous of Verity’s beauty, her ability to bounce back after childbirth, and the amazing sex life she and Jeremy (supposedly) had. I guess Lowen does believe the manuscript was true because that is all Verity talked about.
To make herself feel better, she uses Verity’s Victoria’s Secret credit card to buy new lingerie. Oh, honey.
Lowen finds Jeremy lying in bed, reading a new thriller written by a gorgeous raven haired woman who looks a lot like Verity, and she feels jealous. Just jealous? Not nervous that he’s looking for her replacement?
Lowen initiates sex but still can’t escape the feeling that their sex life isn’t as good as Verity and Jeremy’s.
Lowen and Jeremy decide to take Nova and Crew to the beach. Lowen sets up a blanket and watches the kids while Jeremy goes for a run. All the better to pick up new and attractive women, right?
Lowen thinks of the time she asked Crew what she should name the baby and he said he didn’t care because the baby would die anyway. Wow. Please get this child a therapist.
Lowen also mentions that no one knows where they are living and they’ve all taken Lowen’s last name.
Suddenly a familiar-looking woman comes up to Lowen at the beach. It’s Patricia, the gossipy friend of Verity’s that Lowen met in the supermarket back in Vermont.
Patricia, who is walking her dog, is clearly shocked to see Lowen. Patricia does the math: the baby is three month old and Verity died about a year ago.
Jeremy comes back from his run, chats with Patricia, then tells Lowen to take the kids to the car.
Jeremy quickly all their belongings in the car and then goes back down to the beach and drowns Patricia.
RIP Patricia. Yes, the dog is fine. Thanks for asking 🙂
When they get home, Jeremy destroys all the evidence they were ever at the beach.
Lowen is horrified and briefly contemplates leaving, but decides he murdered Verity and Patricia to protect their family.
She gives him a “special present” in the shower as a reward and to prove her loyalty. He seems to enjoy his present. In his enjoyment he kind of chokes her, so hard she is sure it will leave bruises. But she doesn’t mind. Even though Jeremy almost choked Verity to death. Finally, he’s treating her more like Verity!
After the shower sex, Lowen goes to check on Nova, but she’s missing. Crew says he put her outside because she was crying. Fortunately, she’s fine.
Lowen cries herself to sleep. After deciding she’s become part of a family of Chronics.
Oh, Lowen. I’d sleep with one eye open if I were you….
Spoiler Discussion for Verity by Colleen Hoover
Is Verity a villain or is Jeremy a villain … or are they both evil?
Well, I don’t think we can resolve question one. But after that new epilogue, is there anyone out there who’s still on Team Poor Jeremy Finally Found Happiness With a New Wife?
Verity: Unlucky “Chronic” or a Psychopath?
I mean, either way, Verity is … something. Whether she actually killed Harper and wrote the autobiography confessing it OR she did a “writing exercise” that incorporated her guilt over Harper’s death and then lost it and wrote a letter trying to explain herself, she’s a bit odd.
Lowen says that Verity’s characters are “really fucked up” and Jeremy says that Verity has weird, religious parents.
So Verity’s not your average mom next door. But is she a murderer? Is she just crazy in love?
Verity makes the weirdest choices in this book. She writes a crazy, messed-up confession/writing exercise in which she recounts lots of sex scenes with Jeremy and then repeatedly attempts to murder her children.
Whether the pages are facts or fiction, instead of titling it “writing exercise” or reading it to Jeremy so he knows it’s a HUGE JOKE (if it’s just an exercise) OR or password protecting it or locking it away (if it’s real), she does the worst possible thing: she prints out a hard copy and promptly loses it. And when she realizes Lowen found the manuscript, she doesn’t sneak into her office at night and destroy it.
Finally, though she says her top priority is taking her son and escaping Jeremy (as it should be because he’s clearly cheating on her AND has tried to murder her) she hangs around forever, watching Lowen sleep with him while she pretends to be incapacitated. Because she’s still looking for the autobiography.
Is Jeremy a villain?
He initiated the meeting with Lowen and lied about Verity being a fan of Lowen’s work. And HE was the one who read Lowen’s books, not Verity. HE picked her to take Verity’s place (or to torture her).
I feel like Verity was afraid of him even before he tries to kill her, especially at the point she lies and tells him she’s pregnant again.
He had (according to Verity) already read the autobiography AND didn’t tell Lowen that when she told him to read it.
He definitely lied to Lowen. And quite possibly to Verity.
EDITED: Well, now that we have all read the epilogue I think it’s safe to say that Jeremy IS a villain.
Or do Jeremy and Verity have a twisted relationship and are both untrustworthy?
Verity claims that that the manuscript is a writing exercise suggested by her agent, Amanda. A writing exercise in which in which she is a monster who hates her children and kills them.
Jeremy finds it.
Whether it’s a confession or an autobiography, I think the reaction of most husbands would be that Verity was out of her mind with grief.
But Jeremy IMMEDIATELY assumes that his beloved wife and the mother of his children is a deranged murderer.
Verity never tries to explain because “he wouldn’t believe her.” Okay, then.
According to her, he strangles her and then stages the whole thing as a car accident.
Is Verity telling the truth? I don’t know. But I’m still suspicious of Jeremy. He lies a lot and he’s clearly violent.
Jeremy’s first reaction is to be furious at Verity, so firm in his belief that she murdered Harper and had wished both twins harm since before their birth that Verity realizes all is lost and she has to plot her escape. (Again, while romance readers might accept this level of crazy in love, many thriller readers are side-eyeing the entire situation.)
Then either 1) Verity attempts suicide by crashing her car into a tree OR 2) Jeremy injures Verity in the car accident because for whatever reason, divorce or calling the Child Protective Services on Verity isn’t an option.
Then after the accident, instead of either 1) cleaning up the misunderstanding or 2) getting a restraining order on Jeremy, Verity pretends to be incapacitated and unable to speak for months (again, huh???).
After that epilogue, is Lowen now a villain?
Lowen finds the autobiography. Instead of being like “wtf both these people are crazy; I quit,” Lowen is like, “hey that Jeremy is pretty hot.” It’s the whole “my wife doesn’t understand me, my wife is a psycho” story.
EDITED: now that we have the new hardcover epilogue, Lowen has SO much explaining to do. Lady, get out of there.
Team Writing Exercise or Team Autobiography or Team Something Else?
Was So Be It just a “writing exercise” or was it a confession? What is the evidence?
Sadly, as I mentioned above, the new epilogue to the hardcover version of Verity offers no clues.
Evidence that Verity’s manuscript is an autobiography:
There are clearly elements of truth in the autobiography. Yes, Verity may have exaggerated stuff, but there are actual toothmarks on the headboard, so that’s real.
The fact that Verity fakes her condition to stay and find the manuscript is compelling to me. She really wants to get that thing back. And yet, as I argue above, when she has the chance to leave, she doesn’t.
Rufina (in comments) offers that Harper’s scar could evidence that the manuscript is true. Though when Lowen asks about the scar, Jeremy tells her that the doctors said it’s not unusual for a twin to have one.
Evidence that Verity’s manuscript is a writing exercise:
If she had really killed her child, would she have confessed in writing and then printed the confession out and lost it?
It’s very plausible that she was terribly guilty over Harper’s death and the manuscript was a way to explore those feelings of being a bad mother.
Verity says Amanda told her to do it, which is easily proven or disproven.
What’s the deal with Amanda?
My theories as I read were all over the place, but I was definitely suspicious of Jeremy. I was also side-eyeing Amanda, Verity’s editor. At that early meeting with Lowen, she’s putting on red lipstick at 9 am, hoping to catch Jeremy’s eye.
Plus, Amanda was the one supposedly suggested this ridiculous villain origin writing exercise to Verity as a way to a) further her career and MAYBE b) to break up Verity and Jeremy.
Kind of kidding, but that would have been a good twist to have Amanda pop up at the house and point out her teethmarks on the headboard to Lowen.
If I Liked Verity, What Else Should I Read?
I argue in my review of Verity that it is, at its heart, a Gothic romance.
In Gothic romance, the typical plot involves a vulnerable, sheltered young woman coming to live with a magnetic yet troubled man. He’s often a widower, sometimes with children. She falls in love with him but at the same time, is worried that he’s keeping a terrible secret from her.
Think Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, or Rebecca – I have a whole post on Rebecca!
In any case, one of the central questions in Gothic romance is: can our heroine trust the guy?
In Verity, is Jeremy a grieving father and devoted husband, or is he a sinister figure? Is Lowen his next victim? Well, after reading the sequel, I’m on Team Sinister.
Or, as suggested above are both toxic and playing sick games with each other. If you like this theory (or Verity) you should really read Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney and then come join my Spoiler Discussion for Rock Paper Scissors.
Things I did love about Verity:
Verity had a great sense of fun, and of playing with the conventions of romance and Gothic fiction. It did keep me turning the pages.
As I was reading, I couldn’t decide if Verity was a murderer or a victim. Was Jeremy a chronic or an abusive husband? Was Lowen just a crazy kid in love or a complete idiot?
After the epilogue chapter in the hardcover, Jeremy is definitely evil and Lowen has gaslit herself.
So much drama.
Things that drove me crazy about Verity:
The instalove. Yes, this is a mainstay of Gothic fiction, in which a sheltered, virginal young woman is captivated by a tragic, tortured man.
I wasn’t a fan of Lowen. I felt like she was creeping on Jeremy from the moment they both witness the accidental death of some poor pedestrian and Jeremy rips off his shirt to give to her. Then when she finds out he’s Verity’s husband she can’t wait to get to Vermont and hang out with him. Again, instalove.
The lack of clarity on Verity. Was she a liar and a murderer, or was she just a victim of Jeremy?
Whew that was quite the Spoiler Discussion of Verity. What did you think of the book? What is your take on ALL this?
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If you liked Verity because of its twisted relationships, and love thrillers, I’d recommend Rock, Paper Scissors. If you’ve read it, come join our Spoiler Discussion for Rock Paper Scissors – people have a LOT to say!
hi!! So me and my cousin are trying to figure out why Verity would have a knife in her room if she was supposedly innocent? The one crew cut himself on?
Hi Katie!
I can’t remember but hopefully someone else will!
Jeremy had already tried to kill her. She probably kept the knife for protection.
Thanks, Kristi! But that also begs the question of WHY didn’t she leave? That time Jeremy was in New York she could have taken her son and made a run for it.
Because she said she didn’t have money to leave and waiting to get after they paid the new girl
If we are going by the story that Verity gave us, then she probably needed it for protection from Jeremy
Or it could be that she knew her truth was coming out sooner or later and she needed a weapon for self defence
I just read the book! Maybe it was to get the wood panels up to hide things under them? Or protection?
Okay but if the manuscript is the truth and not the letter…! My thought is that it was to kill Crew so Jeremy would have all his time dedicated to her
Wow, that sounds crazy. So much sadness too.
have a thought, really out there, but what if, Lowen had a mental break after losing her mother and then the person dying in front of her(which resulted in her being covered in blood) caused her to lose it? So a handsome man helps her, also happens to be the reason for the meeting(he read her book not Verity), and her getting a large contract to do what she loves and she picks a famous author. But Lowen is a writer, a creative writer in the dark genre, so she has to have darkness and an antagonist. The “bad guy” being someone popular in the same field. She creates this story where she gets everything she wants and saves the day. Obviously, a little far fetched, but what if …
I love out-there theories!
I agree. I spent the whole book wondering if Lowen (or Verity) had a split personality. It explains the whole book. Verity/Lowen kill Harper, Jeremy nurtures her back and has his wife back and BOOM…. All is well but not really
That is an interesting theory and I am going to have to think about it….
i’m on chapter 14 and i searched this up and spoiled it for myself ahahaha im still going to continue reading though; i love your theories and wow.. i hate to look at jeremy in an evil light it feels like i was possibly manipulated but that’s what good books are for
Keep reading it! It’s a crazy book that doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I did enjoy it.
I don’t believe Jeremy is bad though. He has violent tendencies (we saw that) but I doubt he really tried to kill her twice before. The reaction he gave when he saw the manuscript showed shock all over and he didn’t know Lowen was watching so…??
Good point – if he wanted to kill her, he had many opportunities, especially after her accident.
ok but the fact that Jeremy so casually lied to Verity the first time they met makes me think he’d been up to something weird the whole book. That and the fact he was so ready and willing to put locks on the outside of both Verity and Lowen’s doors.
I agree with you 100% but what do you think he was up to? Trapping Lowen into helping him kill his wife?
In the end, I feel like he and Verity were both twisted, playing some kind of sick game. Verity’s explanation for not leaving when she could after he tried to kill her the first time made no sense. She’d locked Lowen and Jeremy in the room and could have run off. Because she STILL couldn’t find the autobiography? At this point Lowen and Jeremy have read it. If she’s telling the truth about it being a writing exercise, her agent would back her up.
But again…..will her agent help her …..coz she’s clearly into Jeremy too
Lolol! Lowen should let the agent have him!
My thoughts were that Verity was batshit crazy.
As a parent, I can understand Jeremy doing “whatever” it took to protect his last surviving child.
If Jeremy read the manuscript, then I think that if it was fake, that he would have noticed enough inconsistencies to realize that the manuscript was bogus. Since he apparently did not think it was fiction, I applaud that he protected Crew and made sure that Verity was out of the picture while making sure he still had a parent to raise him. I would think that only a psycho would be able to maintain the FAKE vegetative state she was in.
THE BOTTOM LINE– wouldn’t you do whatever it took to protect your child?
Hi Lisa! Always a pleasure to see you!
Okay, I can get on board with Verity being the crazy one.
I agree, if Jeremy really thinks Verity murdered Harper, I wouldn’t want her anywhere near Crew.
But then why, if Jeremy was so worried about Verity harming Crew, did he not get her completely out of the picture and ship her off some sort of long term care facility? Why take care of her at home? In the book he claims he’s keeping her around for Crew’s sake.
Verity only assumed he read the manuscript, what makes her believe that he actually did? Other than her own guilt killing her.
“I don’t know if you’ll find this letter, but I hope you do”
why would she hide it in the furthest point of reach under the floor boards?
It is weird that she hid the letter though didn’t her son know where it was?
I think she probably would have moved it to a more “findable” spot if she had the chance to take off with Crew, but it wouldnt be good for Jeremy to find it while she was still in a “vegetative state”
The thing that baffles me is why Jeremy acted like he hadn’t read the manuscript when Lowen reveals it to him..was he plotting for her to find it and take another shot at killing Verity?
First, so sorry that your comment ended up in spam and that I have only just found it.
I think Jeremy NOT having read the manuscript only makes sense if the manuscript was real and Verity was an evil mastermind. BUT if that was the case, why doesn’t she destroy the manuscript after Lowen finds it? This is a reason I can’t accept her as an evil mastermind because if so, she sort of fails at it.
I am so glad you mentioned the book Rebecca. I totally got Rebecca vibes from the beginning. I can imagine Armie Hammer playing Jeremy. I think Jeremy is batshit crazy and the autobiography is a red herring to trick Lowen into hating Verity. Lowen is already attracted to Jeremy and he knows it. He is setting her up to be the second wife from the start. Jeremy set verity up to die in the crash and then she didn’t die. I think that verity is a prisoner in the house. The few times she is awake she talks to crew. Verity doesn’t want Jeremy to know that she wants to escape. The letter is hidden because verity wrote it for herself.
Welcome Sonia – always ready to have another member of Team Jeremy is a psycho.
Whether Verity killed Harper or it was an accident, I do think Jeremy tried to kill Verity and then picked out Lowen as her replacement. I think since Verity didn’t die in the accident and he was sure she was pretending to be incapacitated, he decided he’d play this sick game by bringing poor lovesick Lowen into the picture and sleeping with her. Lowen better watch out!
Sonia- I totally pictured Armie Hammer the entire time!!
Hahaha
Whether the manuscript was real or not, I feel like Jeremy must have found out about it before Lowen showed him because I can’t think of any other reason for Verity to fake her injuries. If Jeremy didn’t think Verity had killed Harpur, then he would have been relieved to find Verity recovered from the car crash.
A scene that stood out to me was when Verity urinated and we learned that Jeremy changes her diapers when the nurses aren’t there. Although I am Team Manuscript in general, this stood out to me because the Verity we read about in the manuscript is so obsessed with her looks and being attractive to Jeremy that I can’t imagine her faking injuries if it means he will see her in what is arguably the most unattractive state possible. That one scene leads me to maybe believing she is more like the Verity described in the letter rather than the manuscript.
Ooh, those are such excellent points. Definitely the Verity of the manuscript would never want Jeremy to change her diapers because she was vain and obsessed with him to a weird way.
As for Letter/Manuscript, what I still can’t get past is her losing the manuscript. That might be the one thing that puts me on Team Letter. If all those crazy confessions were true, wouldn’t she password protect it or something? That makes me think it was just some crazy thing her agent made her do and then she just laughed it off and tossed it in a drawer. Then Jeremy found it and thought it was true.
2 am thoughts here so they might not be the most organized… but i interpreted the “manuscript” to be a suicide note. She alludes to her death at the beginning; she could have already killed Harper by the time she started writing and had nothing to lose by that point. She probably wanted her last act of life to be immortalizing their sex life and making sure Jeremy regretted her death, ensuring a lifetime of pain and guilt for letting her go.
why she didn’t destroy the manuscript…. Maybe she felt her relationship with Jeremy was too far gone, especially after he had to see her in such vulnerable, unattractive positions. Maybe she WANTED him to find it and wanted to be there to witness his remorse and agony?
ugh!!! This is going to keep me up all night. All thoughts are welcome.
Hi Annie and welcome!
Wow, such an interesting theory. You’re right, she is very dramatic at the beginning about being able to see her death coming. It didn’t feel to me like a suicide note, more like her theory about being a “chronic.” Your point about her wanting to make Jeremy pay and miss their sex life is so true though – at times the text sounds like a teenager writing in her diary!
My main question is that since she’s faking her condition, why doesn’t she leave, but I think she seems to kind of love the drama of it all. Or maybe you’re right – she is suicidal but wants him to do it for her. What a weird group of people!
I thought the same theory about it being a suicide note, or at least a confession before an intentional death, but I thought maybe she liked all the attention she got from Jeremy having to take care of her. It was like in a way he had to do more for her, at times, than he did for Crew. It also seemed like faking her injuries was her way to make sure she never fully left his life and couldn’t be replaced. Maybe it wasn’t a suicide attempt, but an attempt to seriously injure herself and be incapacitated. The letter seemed like a way to just clear her name in case the manuscript was found. “Women don’t like sex that much, Jeremy” just seemed so forced to me.
Hi Lauren! Ooh, very interesting. And before Lowen got there, he did have to take care of her. But I guess she was wrong about being replaced!
But also the Verity on the manuscript was obsessed with Jeremy and would do anything to have his attention even if it meant unplugging the baby monitor😬,so I kind of want to believe that she did that for attention
I think she did that so that Jeremy didn’t get to eat a nice dinner with Lowan and Crew. And also because Lowan called her a c$&t and it was Verity’s way of saying F you?