A character who is possessed by a demon forces a teenage girl (probably 13 years old) to give him oral sex. Later, this character goes to kill another character, who in turn thinks he will rape her. In the climax, this possessed character plans to rape his ex-wife before killing her. He strips some clothes off of her, but is stopped before he can complete the act. We learn that the grandmother to whom the titular house belongs to inherited the house from an affair she was coerced into. She was a Black maid serving a white man in his home, and he later willed the house to her. The main character occasionally thinks back to having been abused by an older man when she was 13 years old, which culminated in a rape at that time, although this is not described in any detail.