Tom took a deep breath. It was still so difficult to speak about it—the very things he’d wanted to tell Melissa in Sunshine Square; his confessions, his deepest, darkest secrets. “Rachel, being Jeff’s brainwashed girl, had gotten quite militant herself. She was with Jeff when he met the arms-dealer, so was charged with eco-terrorism, too.”
He took another deep breath, wondering if Melissa would believe what he had to say next. It had taken him so long to leave all of this behind, to get rid of the nasty looks and accusations from his erstwhile friends and even family.
“Rachel blamed me for everything. She wanted to get back at me, even from prison. Before her appearance in court, she released a press statement declaring her pregnancy, naming me as the father who’d set her and Jeff up in
