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out by Riley so he could hold the papers over Shanna’s head. However he made it look to Shanna that he bought the place was going to sign it over to her if their relationship lasted. If it did not she could buy him out. I firmly believed though that Shanna had fallen in love and in doing so would do anything to protect Riley. I believe her anger and jealousy of me was not only directed towards me but all of the girls who grew up popular or pretty.
    “Linden and Holbrook will be here shortly to fill us in about Reese.” I looked up at him. How was I going to tell Jason about what Reese had done?
    “Well I guess before they get here…” I started.
    “Yes, Alison, tell me what happened. “ He grabbed my hand and we sat on the couch.
    “Jason, Reese forced himself on me.” I decided to put it straight out there and not beat around the bush. I saw Jason’s face go from shock to sadness to anger to pure fury. He stood up and paced around. “I am sorry.”
    “Sorry?” He sat right back down next to me and pulled me towards him and as much as my body hurt I did not care. I had missed his touch. The safety of his arms. “You don’t have to be sorry. I am sorry I was not here to protect you.” Tears welled up in his eyes.” I touched his cheek. I kissed him gently.
    “You were there.” I told him. “Every time I grew terribly scared, alone or sad while they had me captive I thought of you. While Reese was hurting me I zoned out and just completely was able to pretend I was in the safest place in the world. Your arms.”
    “I want to hurt him for what he did to me.”
    “I know.” We hugged until the FBI got there. Finally, we were meeting to put closure on this whole thing. There was court to still deal with but I was so ready to just get everything settled.
    “Ok.” Linden started. “Riley Malanta and five of his boys were caught at the air port with tickets to Costa Rico. Riley has three pages of Federal Charges coming plus a first-degree murder case. Reese as well has both Federal and first degree murder charges coming.”
    “What more do you know about Reese?” I asked.
    “Reese, whose real name is, John Sheldon Andrews.” I was shocked. I do not know why I was shocked after everything but I was shocked. He was not even, close to who he said he was. “He was born in Kansas in 1975. His parents died in a freak accident when John was 12. However there were rumors that John may have even had something to do with it.”
    “At 12?” I asked.
    “Yes. He was moved into home after home. He did not exactly make great choices. He finally ran away from the system at sixteen and everyone lost touch with him. Apparently, he found himself in Redwood Maine where he was taken under the wing of Riley Malanta. Riley took him in. Gave him a job and basically treated him like a younger brother. So when John was old enough Riley brought him into the underworld of crime.”
    “Oh goodness.” I said. Digesting all of this was hard. So many different shocking truths coming out but I braced myself for more.
    “Thanks to Dan and his investigating Riley started feeling the pressure of getting caught for his activities here. By that time we were involved as well. Riley set up for John to move here under the name Reese, get the job at the school, and meet you. Since all of the meetings were taking place at the Full Cup, they were worried that you either had caught on or were getting ready to figure out what was going on. Riley figured if he sent John here to distract you they could get done what they needed to do to get this multi-million dollar shipment in and then leave the country.”
    “This was a lot bigger then I even imagined.” Jason said shaking his head. “I think even bigger then Grandpa thought as well.”
    “Oh most definitely.” Holbrook agreed.
    “How did poor Raymond get involved?” I asked. I felt so bad. With everything going on, I still had not paid my respects to Raymond or his family. I really