Grown

In the present day, Enchanted is taken into police custody as Korey is pronounced dead. Mrs. Jones is interrogated by detectives, who explain that “[Enchanted] was the only one found at the scene of the crime” (300). The detectives point out that when Enchanted was touring with Korey, Mrs. Jones threatened to kill him. They accuse Mrs. Jones of only caring about money, but she explains that Korey never gave them a cent, and she only cared about getting her child back. The detectives reveal that someone used Mrs. Jones’s car to go into the city on the night of the murder, and she guesses that it was her husband, looking for Enchanted.

As news breaks of Korey’s murder, Enchanted meets with her new lawyer (courtesy of the Will and Willow mothers). He tells Enchanted that she is “public enemy number one” (304), but the police have to release Enchanted because they don’t have enough evidence to issue a formal arrest warrant. He warns that they are gathering evidence, and they will try to arrest her before long. Enchanted swears that she didn’t kill Korey. When Enchanted is back home with her family, she gets an anonymous phone call from a woman threatening to kill her.