This Motherless Land

Content Warning: This section of the text depicts racism, substance abuse, and pregnancy lose.

Liv works at Selfridges doing women’s makeup. She regularly works hungover and high, living alone and partying every night.

Liv wakes up in the middle of the night covered in blood with extreme stomach pains. She realizes she is covered in blood. She calls Jojo, who is now a pediatrician. He takes her to the hospital, where she learns she has lost the pregnancy—without even knowing she was pregnant. Jojo demands that she either move in with him or return home to The Ring. She moves everything out of her apartment and goes home for the first time in six years.

Liv walks around the garden with Grandma. They talk about Lizzie and Margot, with Grandma acknowledging that she mistreated Lizzie while spoiling Margot. She insists that Liv is still young and can turn her life around. She agrees to go see Derek, the family lawyer, to get her £50,000 inheritance now that she has turned 25.

After speaking with Derek, Liv asks Grandma if Kate knew she was in Grandpa’s will. Grandma admits that she didn’t, as Margot refused to tell her. However, Margot did arrange with the lawyers for Kate to get her inheritance early, then she sent it to Kate and her father in Lagos.