Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

Ernie reveals how his father died, explaining that he was not—as suggested earlier in the novel—a police officer but instead a criminal who killed a police officer during the robbery of a gas station. Ernie speaks of how his father’s actions caused the Cunningham name to have a negative connotation from then forward.

Ernie goes onto the roof in hopes of obtaining a cell signal. There, he finds Lucy, smoking. He apologizes to her for the breakfast fight. Lucy is worried that the body was Michael’s, and Ernie assures her it was not. Ernie goes on to look up the name of the serial killer Sofia mentioned, but Lucy, having just done so, tells Ernie about him instead. Lucy wants the police to be gone before Michael’s arrival. She tells Ernie she blames him for Michael’s imprisonment but wants to declare a truce.

Michael arrives at the resort in a truck. He greets everyone, and Ernie is surprised that Michael seems genuinely not angry at him. Michael requests the two have a drink alone later.

The chapter ends as Erin, Ernie’s wife, climbs out of the driver’s seat of the truck.