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We Were Liars Chapter 39 Summary

  • What Cadence is afraid to do is kiss Gat, so she does it.
  • Gat kisses her back, and it's awesome, but then he stops and says he shouldn't do it.
  • When she asks why, he says it's because she doesn't really know him—she only knows the Beechwood version.
  • Another thing she doesn't know: the names of the staff, who are the only other people of color on the island besides Gat. The fact that she doesn't know their names makes him angry.
  • He asks her if she's read Wuthering Heights. She hasn't.
  • He tells her that Harris views him like the Earnshaws view Heathcliff—in Harris's eyes, Gat will never be good enough for Cadence.
  • What's terrifying, Gat says, is that Harris is right: He'll always be a monster.