# Chapter 36: A Mother’s Grief, a Daughter’s Ghost, and the Autopsy That Could Unmask a Monster
Hello everyone, it’s me again! How are you all doing? Today I will continue to walk with you and review Chapter 36 of "Forget You Saw Her free digital audiobook". And wow, this chapter is a heartbreaker. It is raw, intimate, and haunted by the kind of grief that refuses to stay buried. So grab a quiet moment, because Isabel is about to overhear something that cuts straight through her ghostly heart.
The chapter opens with Isabel storming out of the room, but she cannot help herself. She hovers near the bedroom door and listens to every word her mother says. And her mother’s words land like arrows. She calls Isabel angry, full of hate. She says Isabel looked awful, so changed that she would not have recognized her own daughter on the street. She compares her to the prodigal son. The pain of hearing this is worse than Isabel imagined during those nights beneath the underpass, when she toyed with the idea of finding a payphone and calling home. Because it is not just disappointment in her mother’s voice. It is love. Pain. Sadness. All of it mixed into a poisonous stew where the parts that build you up and the parts that destroy you can no longer be separated.
Isabel is angry. Hurt. And she misses her mother so much. She misses her dad and her sisters too. Maybe they miss her. She is willing to believe that now. But she also knows, deep down, that the news of her death means she will be frozen in their memories as a broken, lost girl. Then Sabina broaches the idea of an autopsy. Isabel rushes back inside the sun-streaked bedroom, stunned. She and Andrea had convinced Sabina to see the faint bruising on Isabel’s lip and cheek, but she had not let herself hope Sabina would push things that far. “Yes, yes! Please do the damn autopsy,” Isabel begs, catching Andrea’s wide eyes. There is DNA on her body. They will find her fractured ribs. Maybe they will even realize there were no drugs in her system.
But her mother hesitates. She calls it extreme. The police already did an exam. They know how Isabel died. The family is making arrangements to have her moved to the family plot at Myers Memorial. The idea of planning a funeral breaks her voice again. Sabina presses on, insisting it is not extreme, that coroners do post-mortem autopsies all the time. Then her mother interrupts. Sister Ramos asked how she felt about putting that photo of Isabel—with the horrible blue hair—on Sabina’s Facebook page. At least she asked this time. But she does not see what it will accomplish. Their daughters did not know each other outside of attending the same church for a little while. They were not even close to the same age. Isabel hisses for Sabina to just get the autopsy.
Sabina bites her lower lip and leans forward. The page has been getting a lot of activity. She knows it is still a longshot to think Andrea’s case is connected to what happened to Isabel. But Dennis Beaumont—
“No!” Isabel cries, but there is no pulling back the words Sabina has just said. Saying his name is a mistake. “Connected?” her mother says shrilly, and Isabel watches the horrified realization hit Sabina too late. Andrea looks between them in confusion, but Isabel does not bother explaining. Her mother is about to lose her shit, and she will explain why herself. Her mother never wanted to talk about Dennis Beaumont. She definitely did not want to believe Isabel’s death had anything to do with Andrea’s disappearance. Instead of anger, Isabel feels an unexpected stab of clarity and empathy. Of course her mother does not want to talk about Dennis Beaumont. Of course she does not want to believe the two cases are connected. Because if Dennis Beaumont is somehow connected to Isabel’s death, it means Isabel had been telling the truth all along about what he did to her in that interview. It means she and Isabel’s father should have listened. Helped. Instead of sending her to her room and asking her to repent for her sins. It means life might have taken a very different path. One where her daughter might be sitting at her dinner table instead of lying in the ground. And those thoughts are too much for her to bear.
Sabina fumbles an apology. Her mother’s voice turns icy. She is sorry about Andrea, and she knows how desperate Sabina must be to find her. But if this is a witch hunt for Dennis Beaumont, she wants no part of it. She has a funeral to plan. Her voice falters on the last word. Isabel sits down on the bed in defeat, briefly imagining the funeral her family will hold for her at the church meetinghouse. The chorus of “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” swelling through the same pews where she once sat as a teenager, surrounded on all sides but so alone. Sabina apologizes helplessly, but her mother says she needs to go. They have not even told Isabel’s sisters yet. Then the screen blinks off as the call disconnects.
Sabina whispers, “Shit.” Then she stomps into the kitchen. Andrea moves toward Isabel, but Isabel turns away, her mother’s words still ringing in her ears as she imagines her sisters’ faces. Abish would be twenty-six by now. Had she married Brady Oaks, the boy in their ward, like she always said she would? Eve would be twenty-seven. Was she a teacher now, Ms. Palphreyman, to a class full of kindergarteners like she always wanted? Sariah would be twenty-nine, so grown-up Isabel can barely imagine her. She had just gotten married when Isabel left home—a wedding in the temple Isabel had not been allowed to attend. At her reception, held in the same church building where Dennis Beaumont tried to corner Isabel in his office, Sariah had stepped out of the receiving line to wrap her up in a hug. Then she invited Isabel to dinner at her new apartment. Promised to make her favorite dinner, chicken and broccoli casserole. Isabel suddenly wishes more than anything that she had said yes.
For a moment, standing in the unfamiliar Airbnb, Isabel feels more lost than she did beneath that underpass. But then she knows what she wants to do. She tells Andrea she needs to go to them. Her family. Andrea stares like she has lost her mind. “Wait, what? You’re leaving now?” Her disbelief turns to crestfallen disappointment. Isabel says softly that if she can convince her parents to get the autopsy, it will change everything. Maybe her mother will listen to her, like Sabina seems to listen to Andrea. Andrea nods slowly, understanding dawning. But Isabel does not explain the rest. It is not just the autopsy—though she wants that badly. The autopsy might be the puzzle piece that finally puts Dennis Beaumont in the hot seat for both their deaths. The police could get a warrant. Dennis would go to jail. But it is more than that. A seed of hope has worked its way inside her head that maybe her family missed her more than she thought. Her mother and father are finally coming to find her. They will take her body to the beautifully landscaped cemetery where both sets of grandparents are buried beneath a giant row of oak trees. They will call her sisters home. They will lay her to rest. And Isabel needs to be there when they do. When she sees them, she will hug them tight in the only way she still can, hoping they will feel her presence nearby, the way Sabina seems to.
She promises Andrea she will come back as soon as she can. Andrea shakes her head, frustration and loneliness rising up. “How will you know I need you? How will we find each other again?” she demands, sounding like the teenager she is. “What if Dennis comes for Sabina? He’s got that tracker on her car, remember?” Isabel has been thinking about this. She reminds Andrea of the church memory, the one where Isabel was sitting in the pew with her family. When Andrea touched her arm and spoke to her, it brought Isabel right back inside that memory. So if something happens, Andrea can go back to that memory and grab her arm. This time, Isabel will stay. They can talk and find each other again. Andrea reluctantly agrees. Then she asks if Isabel knows how to find her way home. Isabel shrugs. She has always known, or at least been pretty sure she could figure it out if she spent enough time wandering the city streets. But right now, she is going back to the cemetery. Her mother just said she was on her way there. “I’ve gotta go,” Isabel says, moving away so Andrea will not feel the ripples of sadness running through her. They only met a day ago, but Andrea already knows her better than her own family in a profound way, and Isabel hates to leave her. She suddenly thinks that maybe someday, when her parents and sisters die, they will know her that way too. And she will know them. “They see as they are seen.” That thought gives her the most hope she has felt in a very long time.
## Reader’s Impressions & Star Rating This chapter is devastating in the best way. It captures the impossible knot of family love, denial, guilt, and grief. Isabel’s mother is not a villain here—she is a woman drowning in a truth too painful to touch. The autopsy push, the accidental mention of Dennis Beaumont, and the emotional disconnect of the phone call all collide perfectly. And Isabel’s longing for her sisters is so human it hurts. The chapter also plants powerful hope: the memory link with Andrea, the coming funeral, and the possibility that Dennis may finally be exposed. It is tense, tender, and ghostly in all the right ways.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4.9 / 5 Stars
## Next Chapter Prediction Next, I predict Isabel will arrive at the cemetery just as her mother is there making arrangements. This could be the first time Isabel tries to communicate with her mother directly, maybe through a memory, a cold whisper, or a flicker of presence. Meanwhile, Sabina and Andrea may face danger alone, especially if Dennis Beaumont notices the Facebook page activity or checks the tracker on Sabina’s car. The autopsy decision will likely become the central battle—one that could force the police to re-examine Isabel’s body and finally link Dennis to both girls. I also expect Andrea to use the church memory to reach Isabel if things go wrong, creating a cliffhanger where the living and the dead must race against Dennis’s next move.
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