took a breath.
“The woman Calvin knows as Melissa is neither me nor Rachel.”
The woman beside me made a strangled sound.
Melissa continued.
“Her real name is Leah Morgan.”
Leah.
She repeated the name.
“Leah.”
A memory seemed to strike her.
Her hand flew to her mouth.
“I know that name.”
Melissa explained.
Leah had been a nurse at a private Bellmore-funded rehabilitation facility.
The night of the crash, Harold Vance’s people brought Rachel there.
Leah discovered Rachel was being held under sedation while documents were prepared in her name.
“She tried to help Rachel escape.”
Melissa’s voice softened.
“She almost succeeded.”
I felt cold.
“What happened?”
Dorothy whispered.
“An @tt/@ck.”
Melissa’s recording confirmed it.
Leah was badly injured during the escape.
Samuel arrived during the chaos.
He found both women.
Rachel conscious.
Leah barely responsive.
He moved Rachel somewhere else.
Then he gave Leah Melissa’s identity.
“Why?”
